Borrowing To Pay For College Used To

The Cost Of College Should Never Discourage Anyone From Going After A Valuable Degree.

States Should Not Balance Their Budgets On The Backs Of Students.

State Governments Generate Less Revenue In A Recession. As State Leaders Struggle To Make Up For Lost Revenue, Legislatures Tend To Cut Funding For Higher Education. Colleges, In Turn, Answer These Funding Cuts With Tuition Hikes.

We Have Had This Massive Effort On K-12 Reform, Raising Standards, Great Teachers, Great Principals, Turning Around Chronically Failing Schools, Raising The Bar, Huge Amount Of Progress. Let's Continue That.

If The Goal Is To Dramatically Improve College Completion Rates, Not College-going Rates By Itself But College Completion, It's Not Just A College Problem. We Need A Big Focus On Early Childhood Education. Our Early Childhood Education System Is Pretty Good In This Country. Not Enough Students Have Opportunity. And, Very Discouragingly, They Lose Their Advantage Because They Go To Poor Schools After That. So, Let's Focus On Our Babies.