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Cut Waste or Invest? Try Both

New York Times - Column

January 26, 2011

Both the federal government and the states spend money on higher education in terribly wasteful ways. They don't offer incentives for success, and they demand little accountability from colleges. Colleges that do a masterful job of graduating students receive no reward, and those that do a subpar job - of which there are many - go unpunished, giving them little reason to improve.

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