A Degree With Zero Student Debt. Does It Work? - Emily Siner, NPR

Tennessee Governor Haslam's announcement of Tennessee Promise four years ago set off a chain of similar programs around the country, including Oregon Promise and New York's Excelsior Scholarship, which also extends free tuition to public universities. So is this new data significant enough to sway the future of Promise-type programs? Not likely, says Robert Kelchen, an assistant professor of higher education at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. The people who will probably find the data most — well, promising — are those who are already interested in the program. "I don't think it's enough to change someone's political preferences," he says. The problem with this kind of comparison data, he explains, is that it doesn't determine whether Tennessee Promise actually caused the increase in degrees https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/05/28/614435379/a-degree-with-zero-student-debt-does-it-work