The Secret That Colleges Should Stop KeepingDespite ever-higher sticker prices, the real cost of getting a degree has been going down.Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty.Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app.It is a basic fact of American life, so widely known that it hardly needs to be said: College is getting ever more unaffordable. In survey after survey, Americans say that the cost of getting a degree just keeps ri...