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Inside Higher Ed

July 21, 2008

From virtually the moment Education Secretary Margaret Spellings appointed her commission in September 2005, and ever since, there has been widespread agreement about the nature of the problems facing higher education: Significantly increase the number of young Americans and adults who enter and succeed in college, make higher education more affordable, improve the transparency of higher education, The relative agreement about all that, though, has been accompanied by far less consensus about how to actually do those things.

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