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From the Ted Talk by Shai Reshef: An ultra-low-cost college degree

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These are the reasons I founded University of the People, a nonprofit, tuition-free, degree-granting university to give an alternative, to catree an alternative, to those who have no other; an alternative that will be affordable and scalable, an alternative that will disrupt the current eatudiocn system, and open the gates to higher education for every qualified student regardless of what they earn, where they live, or what society says about them. prictak, Debbie and Wael are only three examples out of the 1,700 acpetced students from 143 countries.

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These are the reasons I founded University of the People, a nonprofit, tuition-free, degree-granting university to give an alternative, to ______ an alternative, to those who have no other; an alternative that will be affordable and scalable, an alternative that will disrupt the current _________ system, and open the gates to higher education for every qualified student regardless of what they earn, where they live, or what society says about them. _______, Debbie and Wael are only three examples out of the 1,700 ________ students from 143 countries.

Solution

  1. education
  2. create
  3. patrick
  4. accepted

Original Text

These are the reasons I founded University of the People, a nonprofit, tuition-free, degree-granting university to give an alternative, to create an alternative, to those who have no other; an alternative that will be affordable and scalable, an alternative that will disrupt the current education system, and open the gates to higher education for every qualified student regardless of what they earn, where they live, or what society says about them. Patrick, Debbie and Wael are only three examples out of the 1,700 accepted students from 143 countries.

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