American Higher Education

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Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:30:11 +0000

No, they don’t have the greatest influence. The greatest influence by far are educational opportunities offered by the community college system, which provide lifelong opportunities for folks with little in the way of opportunities otherwise to better themselves.

The sons and daughters of the one percent, and the educational cream will rise to the top in any case (as we can see in other nations as well). And large numbers of those who attend top 100 universities don’t need anything in the way of loans, and assets of the top 5% of the population have risen faster than prestige private college tuition in the past 30 years. For them, college has never been more inexpensive.