Is the ‘College for All’ Movement Ending?

Unfortunately, everything from rising student debt to campus culture wars to high noncompletion rates has fueled a narrative suggesting that college may be overrated. And as happens so often in American life, this misperception has had the most damaging impact on low-income young people who stand to gain the most from postsecondary education. After all, an enormous body of economic evidence shows the strong earnings advantage college graduates hold over their peers with only a high school diploma—both immediately after graduation and for decades afterward.

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by Ben Wildavsky and Richard Whitmire , Inside Higher Ed.

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