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A recent Pew Research Center survey reflects a growing public discontent with the cost and value of higher education in the United States. According to the telephone survey, 75% of Americans surveyed say college is too expensive to afford, while 57% surveyed believe that “higher education in the U.S. fails to provide a good value.” [...]
A report released last year by the OECD shows the United States falling from world leader to average in the areas of math, science and reading education. Karin Zeitvogel, of AFP reports “The three-yearly OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) report, which compares the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds in 70 countries around [...]