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Jewish World Review April 29, 2014 / 29 Nissan, 5774 The payoff of a college education By Michael Gerson http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | In one of the lower policy points during the 2012 Republican primary campaign, Rick Santorum told a tea party group, “President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob.” It was a complex electoral maneuver: Take a fragile middle-class expectation — and a powerful immigrant and working-class hope — and make it into an object of populist derision. Do you really want all that pipe smoking and port sipping and late-night dorm planning to undermine the Constitution? Santorum was, in fact, the GOP candidate most conspicuously attempting to address working-class concerns. But the paradox only heightened the symbolism. Americans seek a valuable but increasingly overpriced good for their children. Republicans answer with a heaping helping of ideology. The indifference hurts as much as the issue. Recent figures indicate that growing numbers of high school graduates are taking Santorum’s career advice. The share of high school graduates (66 percent) entering college last fall was the lowest since 2006. This may be the result, in part, of improving job prospects for those without post-secondary education. But it is difficult, in an economy that places a premium on skills, to regard a smaller aggregate stock of skills as a positive development. We should want more people to go to college — and to find effective apprenticeships, occupational certificates and job training. A steady rise in the percentage of people who graduate from high school is one of the (rare) success stories in U.S. education. The graduation rate increased from 71.7 percent in 2001 to 81 percent in 2012, with serious gains for Hispanic and African American students. Maintaining this trajectory, graduation rates could reach 90 percent by 2020. But after high school, what then? The benefits of a college education — in wages, employment levels and avoiding poverty — remain comparatively robust but largely because the prospects of those with a high school diploma have dimmed. In 1979, according to the Pew Research Center, the typical high school graduate earned 77 percent of what a college graduate made. Among millennials, that figure is now 62 percent. For the poor, a college degree remains an important avenue of upward mobility. But for those in the middle class, the aspiration of a diploma is increasingly mixed with fear. The economic returns of a college degree are stagnant. Many who hold one are underemployed. Still, the alternative is worse. At the same time, the cost of a four-year college degree has ballooned. For the middle class, an average year of tuition is roughly half of household income. So both students and parents borrow massively to purchase a degree that can cost as much as a house, knowing it has diminishing value and used to cost less. It is not a wrong decision but hardly a satisfying one. “In a modern, knowledge-based economy,” says Paul Taylor of Pew, “the only thing more expensive than going to college is not going to college.” But the fact that college costs have risen faster than nearly any other good or service is not a law of nature. Higher education is a failing market, in which most of the incentives are set toward higher tuitions and higher borrowing. The student loan system makes it easier for students to pay more than they can afford and so for schools to charge more than they are worth, while the accreditation system restricts experiments with new methods of teaching and learning. Market-oriented conservatives should be coming up with ideas to shift the incentives of the system, rather than continuing to inflate the bubble with additional debt. Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) have set out proposals that would widen the accreditation process for lower-priced educational alternatives and increase the data given to students about potential earnings in various fields — allowing them to make an informed decision about incurring debt. It is a start. Barely. For Republicans, the issue of higher education is emblematic. There are a number of vital but creaky social systems — elementary and secondary education, health care, the tax code, the immigration system, the social safety net — in need of serious, market-based reform. A party of innovation, redesign and repair might have considerable appeal. It would, among other good things, directly address many of the concerns of the working and middle class. But a party of opposition, faux populism and reflexive anti-government ideology is not up to this task. Given our level of institutional dysfunction, the country needs Republicans to be a source of solutions. 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Previously: 04/04/14 Our dysfunctional Senate 03/25/14 Obama is learning is learning the lessons of inaction -- one hopes 03/21/14 The GOP's need for creative policy 03/18/14 Can Obama Rise To Carter's Level? 03/11/14 Ukraine shakes up the GOP debate over foreign policy 03/07/14 The U.S. retreats: History tells us who will fill the vacuum 02/28/14The GOP is struggling to redefine itself 02/25/14 Physics is enjoying a golden age 02/18/14 Syria's refugees: Assad uses mass atrocities in the civil war 02/11/14 Burke and Paine, a rivalry that still reverberates 02/03/14 A rendezvous with irrelevance 01/31/14 Obama's thin agenda: The State of the Union lacked a theme 01/28/14 Obama breeding distrust of liberalism 01/24/14 Our complex president: Is his intellectual style actually good leadership? 01/21/14 The power to intimidate . . . on the Left 01/17/14 Gates hits his target 12/31/13 A dismal year in politics, for Republicans and Democrats alike 12/24/13 The war on Christians 12/17/13 The exhausted parties: What have politicians accomplished? 12/06/13 My numbered days: My cancer diagnosis gave me the clarity of mortality 11/22/13 C.S. Lewis: Rescuing desire 11/19/13 Former bridge burner starting to build them to save GOP 11/15/13 Entrepreneurs of outrage: Fear and anger sweep up policy issues 11/01/13 What Obamacare has cost Dems 10/29/13 In 6 months will this column prove prophetic? 10/22/13 Obamacare repair: It could become a crisis for modern liberalism 10/04/13 The GOP should speed Obamacare's demise. Right now, it's not 10/03/13 The tea party's revolt 09/30/13 The end of compromise? 09/17/13 A state of paralysis: Congress, Obama need to act 09/12/13 In full retreat on Syria 09/10/13 Obama misunderstands wartime leadership 09/09/13 Rallying around a gesture 08/30/13 The preacher and the politician 08/27/13 Is Obama's oft-cited best-case scenario in Syria still even possible? 08/23/13 Jordan's wary welcome 08/20/13 The hardest goodbye: A parent letting go 08/16/13 For GOP, opposition shouldn't only mean obstruction 08/13/13 Crazy, humane determination creates breakthrough for millions 08/09/13 America's bubble of complacency 07/01/11 The GOP's ideal America 03/04/11 The last doughboy and the emergence of a great nation 03/01/11 Conservatives shouldn't be so surprised by freedom 02/22/11 The progression of pain 02/18/11 The seriousness primary 02/11/11 Do Egypt's protests mean American decline? 01/27/11 No-bend Obama 01/21/11 Two good arguments for civility -- and passion -- in politics 01/11/11 Obama's staff changes give him a second chance 01/11/11 Is Arizona shooting an empty search for meaning? 01/07/11 WikiLeaks gives dangerous ammunition to a tyrant 01/04/11 Michael Vick: Symbol of the second chance 12/28/10 Social Security reform is the answer to Obama's problems --- and the nation's 12/21/10 When foreign policy realism isn't realistic 12/17/10 When it comes to politics, Obama's ego keeps getting in the way 11/26/10 Libs resort to conspiracy theories to explain Obama's problems 11/19/10 With Holder at the helm, detainee policy is a disaster 11/12/10 Blue-state budget crises spell even more trouble for Dems 10/19/10 Obama the snob 10/12/10 Seeds of victory in Afghanistan 10/05/10 Believers' remorse 10/04/10 Pound-foolish on national security 09/28/10 Babylon on the Potomac 09/27/10 Our reluctant commander in chief 09/21/10 Blue strongholds are becoming Democratic graveyards 09/17/10 For the GOP, a bittersweet brew from the Tea Party 09/15/10: Insanity's great enablers 09/13/10: The lost communicator 09/08/10: Will 2010 midterms be 1994 all over again? 09/01/10: Obama's economic wandering 08/27/10: Miracles from abroad 08/25/10: Address these issues in order to strengthen the Tea Party 08/20/10: The lost promise of Barack Obama 07/23/10: Obama's greatest nightmare 02/04/09: The Reality of Innocence 01/07/09: The Risks in Obama's Ambitions 12/31/08: Support Obama Will Need 06/13/08: Prince Charles, Organic Conservatism Icon 06/11/08: No longer a bankrupt political joke but still overshadowed 04/23/08: McCain's anger management 04/10/08: A Country for Old Men 03/06/08: Does the America Need a Hug? 03/06/08: Obama's First 100 Days 02/29/08: Words Aren't Cheap 02/22/08: He Said, They Said 02/20/08: Dying silently in Zimbabwe 02/15/08: Hillary's Unappealing Path 02/13/08: NATO's Afghan Stumbles 02/08/08: Why McCain Endures 02/06/08: One surge that led to another 02/01/08: In North Korea, Process Over Progress 01/30/08: Compassionate to the end © 2008, WPWG

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