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WASHINGTON (AP) — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said Tuesday that ballooning student debt has caused a "crisis in higher education," and that the traditional path to college might not be the best choice for all students.

DeVos made the comments in Atlanta at a training conference for the Education Department's Federal Student Aid division, which oversees student loans awarded by the federal government. The department released a text of her remarks.

"Our higher-ed system is the envy of the world, but if we as a country do not make important policy changes in the way we distribute, administer...