Mike Konczal on Public Education and Public Options
Mike Konczal is one of my favorite bloggers. Today he has a really excellent post up working out a “general theory of public options”. He links over to this piece in the South Atlantic Quarterly on the rising cost of tuition:
California, one of the world’s wealthiest places, has seen one of the world’s most astonishing declines in college achievement. The state’s continuation rate, the proportion of students starting college who complete it, fell from 66 percent to 44 percent in just eight years (1996–2004). California’s rank among states in investment in higher education declined during the same period,from fifth to forty-seventh,according to Tom Mortenson, a higher education policy analyst.The state has cut its investment in higher education by close to 50 percent since 1980, forcing
