Communities throughout the nation will join the National Education Association Nov. 13-17, 2017, to celebrate the 96th annual American Education Week. This 12 months’s marketing campaign emphasizes that our nation’s public colleges are right here for each student —no matter the circumstance, everyone seems to be welcome and all deserve the help, tools, and time to study.
If Princeton wished to position itself as an Asian college, yes, it might fill its classes with plenty of smart abroad students who can afford to pay their very own way. Oxford, proper now, might fill each class with certified Chinese college students, all of whose households would willingly, and fairly simply, lay out the full fare. But an American kid who has to take out a mortgage to attend considered one of these colleges faces coming out of college a couple hundred thousand dollars in debt, and that is hardly the nice …