"Recent efforts to deal with college affordability, including measures now before Congress, raise many questions: At the root of all those problems is the most fundamental issue: Who should pay for college?" The Chronicle of Higher Education asks. "[T]oday the burden of paying for higher education has shifted to students and families - and that burden weighs most heavily on poor students and poor families. Current discussions of the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act make the mistake of doing business as usual and fighting the last war - of focusing on cosmetic changes in the amounts and ways that federal grants are distributed, and on how a broken loan system might be patched. An imaginative rethinking of priorities - led by college leaders - is required, just as it was after World War II, to support financially needy students."