Mises Wire
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Chris Calton
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the declining value of college, and the rest will respectively address the public-policy, ideological, and institutional problems of higher education. Education and for many Americans. Acceptance into a university was not yet a given. Entry was competitive, even for state schools of little prestige, but the rarified status of college increasingly became an appendage of public schools, with states adopting policies mandating automatic admission to state universities for any high school