No class: Bill Clinton's education-as-entitlement programs threaten to reverse positive trends in higher education.
Reason › Vol. 29 Nbr. 1, May 1997
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Editorial
Pres. Bill Clinton's proposed educational program ignores the basic dynamics of higher-education finance and seems to misunderstand how colleges actually work. His plan to make two years of college an entitlement and turn tuition into a tax shelter will only hike up tuition fees for higher education.See the full content of this document
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No class: Bill Clinton's education-as-entitlement programs threaten to reverse positive trends in higher education.
It's not surprising that Bill Clinton has decided to become the education president. Southern governors always emphasize education, hoping to drag their states up a few economic notches and prove they're on the side of civilization; hence, the South has produced such secretaries of education as former Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander and former South Carolina Gov. Dick Riley. Clinton follows in this tradition, hailing from a state in which a mere 13.4 percent of the population had college degrees or better as of 1990 (an even worse showing than Mississippi). He knows education is important because he grew up in and lat...
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