College Class System
“It seems quaint to recall that higher learning is supposed to be an engine of social mobility. Today, the country’s best colleges are an overpriced gated community whose benefits accrue mostly to the wealthy. At 38 colleges, including Yale, Princeton, Brown and Penn, there are more students from the top 1 percent than the bottom 60 percent. Tuition prices aren’t the only reason for this, but they’re a major one. Public university tuition has doubled in the last two decades, tripled in the last three.” (And that doesn’t even include the bribes.) In HuffPo Highline, Kevin Carey on The Creeping Takeover of Higher Education. “Universities had the chance to make quality education affordable for everyone.” This is what they did instead…