Americans divided on higher education, but we can move to common ground
A recent opinion survey conducted by the Pew Research Center raised in stark terms the question of how Americans value institutions of higher learning… Most attention has focused on two aspects of the results. First, responses among Republicans and Democrats differed dramatically. Whereas 72 percent of Democrats responded that colleges and universities have a positive effect on the country, and only 19 percent that they had a negative effect, among Republicans, 58 percent saw colleges and universities as having a negative effect on the country and only 36 percent thought that they have a positive impact… Democrats having a more favorable view of higher education institutions than Republicans — is of long-standing, the difference used to be much less.
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by Frederick M. Lawrence, The Hill.