Free Higher Education Is a Human Right
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/20-8
Students in Montreal took to the streets in the spring of 2012 to demand their right to a free education. (File: public domain)
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The College Cost Crisis
Consider the situation in which we now find ourselves:
Social mobility in the United States is at or near its lowest point in modern history. A nation which prides itself on the only in America myth has fallen far behind other countries in this, the primary measurement of an equal-opportunity society.
In the midst of this class ossification, higher education remains a powerful tool for social mobility.
Education is in danger of becoming an inherited privilege. The greatest predictor of a childs likelihood of graduating college lies in the answer to the question, Did his parents graduate high school? The OECD found that The odds that a young person in the U.S. will be in higher education if his or her parents do not have an upper secondary education are just 29% one of the lowest levels among OECD countries (emphasis ours). (Source: Education at a Glance OECD Indicators 2012.)
Thats not a land of opportunity. This kind of economic aristocracy is fundamentally un-American. And its getting worse.