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. 

 

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Get more information on the politics of higher education by checking out Suzanne's latest book, Degrees of Inequality