March 10, 2006

Powerful Forces Draw Academe Into the Fray

By PETER SCHMIDT

Economic fears and the high-school-reform movement have colleges under pressure to help improve the education of children

After two decades, the revolution in the nation's elementary and secondary schools has finally reached academe's ivory towers. If college administrators listen beyond their institutions' walls, they can hear crowds of students and parents voicing frustration over colleges' high remediation rates and low graduation rates, visionaries urging the creation of entirely

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