America's higher education system is failing its students. In the space of a generation, we have gone from being the best-educated society in the world to one surpassed by eleven other nations in college graduation rates. Higher education is evolving into a caste system, and for-profit colleges are leaving students more unequal than when they started. Suzanne Mettler explains how.
Get more information on the politics of higher education by checking out Suzanne's latest book,
Degrees of Inequality.
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5 Things You Didn’t Know About For-Profits
America's higher education system is failing its students. In the space of a generation, we have gone from being the best-educated society in the world to one surpassed by eleven other nations in college graduation rates. Higher education is evolving into a caste system, and for-profit colleges are leaving students more unequal than when they started. Suzanne Mettler explains how.
Tags: american dream, for-profit colleges, partisan, political polarization, college, higher education, education policy, politics, suzanne mettler