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Is the dream of a three-year college dead for good?
My colleague Dan de Vise has produced an incisive examination what has happened since the notion of the three-year college, a condensed version of the standard four-year college, became the latest fad. You can find his story here.
He says the idea is a bust. Few students are signing up. Almost nobody wants to move that fast or work that hard. The college dream is tied to a vision of at least four years of exploration of one’s possible life choices, plus some fun. I seems to me that the three-year idea squeezes all the fun out of it. And the sort of people who don’t have much money and would find it useful to save on a year of college tend to prefer to stretch out the experience, not condense it, so they can hold a job while they are learning.
Does this mean we can forget about the three-year college and move on to other topics? Or is there something about this idea that has been overlooked by its critics, and merits reconsideration?
- Jay Mathews
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