Inside Higher Ed: Time for US to wake up
Written by John Moravec on Monday, June 12, 2006 at 12:37
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Inside Higher Ed has an article on the decrease of political and financial support for American education relative to global competitors. Citing research by John A. Douglass at UC Berkeley, the article states:
Douglass says that other nations are using government policy to match or exceed U.S. participation rates and to more fully integrate higher education into national economic and social policy. “They have many problems of their own,” according to Douglass, “but it is the political will and trajectory of their efforts that offers a sharp contrast to the U.S.” He notes that for the first time since the late 1800s, America no longer has the world’s highest rate of young students going on to a postsecondary institution.
Furthermore, China and other nations are building hundreds of new schools, each aiming to become the next Harvard…
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