It may be more than just a coincidence that our systems of higher education are struggling to define or re-define themselves just as we are experiencing one of the deepest stretches of economic trouble in our lifetime. The economic hole we have fallen into, both in the U. S. and globally, will require solutions across multiple dimensions, but none will be more important than how we collectively approach the education of young people. In this arena – education – we are slipping inexorably down a bad path.
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