My letter to Marketplace this a.m.
As a professor at a liberal arts college, I listened with no small interest to David Frum’s attackon Nancy Pelosi’s plans to increase access to higher education this morning on the NPR show, Marketplace. The basis of his argument appears to be that because college students do scarcely better on standardized tests than high school seniors, Americans should not increase access to college. They’re not, Mr. Frum suggests, getting their money’s worth.
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