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Our annual Top Schools issue is out today! 📚🎓📝🏛️ For our cover feature, writer Jason Schwartz wrestles with a troubling question: Is college still worth it? American higher education is centuries old, and for decades, the deal has been simple: pay for the degree, get a good job. But now AI, school closures, and a shrinking number of students are breaking that contract—and no American city has more riding on what happens next than ours. The great college reckoning isn’t just an ivory tower problem, it’s a New England (and global, tbh) problem. Also in this month's issue: Our annual ranking of Greater Boston's top-performing public high schools, our fall arts preview, a Greek restaurant feud, and much more. Pick up your copy at local newsstands available now, or see our top schools ranking at the link in our bio. Illustration by Comrade (@comradehq)