KRUGMAN: Republicans turn against education
Published: Sunday, March 11, 2012 at 3:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, March 9, 2012 at 2:45 p.m.
One way in which Americans have always been exceptional has been in our support for education. First we took the lead in universal primary education; then the “high school movement” made us the first nation to embrace widespread secondary education. And after World War II, public support, including the GI Bill and a huge expansion of public universities, helped large numbers of Americans to get college degrees.
But now one of our two major political parties has taken a hard