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Title: Commentary: The Narrowing of the American Mind
*Date: *Oct 22, 2012
*Source: *Chronicle of Higher Education
*Author: *Carol Geary Schneider
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*Summary: *With Americans now experiencing acute anxiety over jobs, money, and our larger future, policy analysis and public discussion of higher education—from the White House down—have focused with laserlike intensity on the connections between college and earnings. The U.S. Department of Education has led this effort with its "gainful employment" regulations—ostensibly aimed at for-profit excess, but all too clearly a blunt instrument waiting to be used on all parts of postsecondary education.
*Link:* * *http://bit.ly/TyZzvX
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