Can We Have College for All?

Nineteen ninety nine was a tough year to be a college-bound high school senior. College admissions were more competitive than ever. “It’s kind of a college mania, with suburban schools sending 70 percent to 80 percent of their students to college,” Robert Zemsky, director of the Institute for Research on Higher Education at the University of Pennsylvania, told the New York Times. “Other routes into the workforce are withering. Vocational education has been nearly cut in half. T...