January 23, 2009
Report on Spending Trends Highlights Inequities in Model for Financing Colleges
An analysis of spending trends that is designed to discourage policy makers' "myopic focus" on finding new revenue rather than reining in spending suggests that the model for financing colleges has reinforced educational inequities and failed to increase the rate at which students graduate.
What's more, according to the analysis, "serious fault lines" in the current system threaten to undermine America's capacity to educate its citizens.
Those conclusions are among the
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