acroyear | on colleges (pt 2)

Hyperbole (and Progressive Bloggers) Fail Me: The End of Public Higher Education « zunguzungu:

we all need to open our eyes to the fundamental transformation of American society that it represents. The generation before Drum’s made it possible to get an excellent education even if you couldn’t afford to pay the $9,000 that Stanford charged in 1981. Kevin Drum’s generation enjoyed the benefits of that system and then they dismantled it. My generation is muddling through by going deep into debt. The next generation will not.