The neglected mission of U.S. higher education

With the nation debating models and metrics for the federal government’s rating of America’s more than 4,000 colleges and universities, there’s one crucial area that no one talks about measuring: higher education’s role in preparing some of today’s most academically-promising 18-22 year-olds to succeed in high-level graduate and professional education, and, eventually, to take their place as tomorrow’s intellectual leaders in our society, said a commentator for Forbes. This is a major blind spot…

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