Jerry Z. Muller is a professor of history at the Catholic University of America in Washington. His new book, The Tyranny of Metrics, is published by Princeton University Press.
More and more Americans are going on to post–high school education, encouraged to do so by both governments and nonprofit organizations. According to the U.S. Department of Education, for example, “In today’s world, college is not a luxury that only some Americans can afford to enjoy; it is an economic, civic, and personal necessity for […]
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