

Education Tax Breaks 101
You don’t need a statistics degree from M.I.T. to realize that college is expensive. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the average annual cost of tuition and room and board at a four-year institution is $12,804 at public schools and $32,184 at private schools. And these expenses are growing fast: between 2000 and 2010 college expenses, after being adjusted for inflation, increased 37% at public schools and 25% at private schools. Fortunately, the fede