Student demonstrators protest rising tuition rates...

Student demonstrators protest rising tuition rates on the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) campus in this file photo taken November 28, 2011. Since the end of 2000, the S&P 500 stock index dropped 3 percent while tuition and fees at a public four-year school when adjusted for inflation climbed on average 72 percent in the last decade, according to the College Board, and financially strapped states have in many cases reduced or frozen funding for education.