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01-28-2008, 08:08 PM
Enabling Animal House: America Needs to Create Rational Higher Ed Policy (http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/DrMatthewLadner/2008/01/28/enabling_animal_house_america_needs_to_create_rati onal_higher_ed_policy?page=full&comments=true)
America needs to invest more financial resources to help address a looming shortage of college graduates needed for the high-tech economy of tomorrow. Or do we?
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While governors around the country call for more public spending so more people will have college degrees, no one seems to have noticed just how poor many universities actually perform in graduating students.
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Furthermore, a growing and alarming body of research raises questions about what students are actually learning in college.
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The crisis in our public universities is effectiveness, not affordability. They need competition (http://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/AboutUs/ArticleView.aspx?id=921), not new subsidies.
America needs to invest more financial resources to help address a looming shortage of college graduates needed for the high-tech economy of tomorrow. Or do we?
< snip , snip >
While governors around the country call for more public spending so more people will have college degrees, no one seems to have noticed just how poor many universities actually perform in graduating students.
< snip , snip >
Furthermore, a growing and alarming body of research raises questions about what students are actually learning in college.
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The crisis in our public universities is effectiveness, not affordability. They need competition (http://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/AboutUs/ArticleView.aspx?id=921), not new subsidies.