October 3, 2003

Grading Congress on Tuition

By STANLEY FISH

A recent Republican report on the 'cost crisis' isn't worth the paper on which it's written

In any college or university in the country, a student who handed in a report pieced together from out-of-date secondary sources, a report that drew sweeping conclusions from meager and misleading data, a report that substituted random anecdotes for documented evidence, a report that tried (vainly) to hide its skimpiness by filling whole pages with bar graphs and "bullet points" (a sure sign of

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