By:
Gene Perry
January 14, 2013 // Updated: May 2, 2019
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America’s status as a world power has emerged side by side with the expansion of public education. From 1910 to 1940, the U.S. led the world in the expansion of universal, publicly-funded secondary schools. Following the growth of public high…
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By:
Gene Perry
January 9, 2012 // Updated: May 2, 2019
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[UPDATE: A previous version of the debt-to-degree chart misidentified Northwestern Oklahoma State University as a community college when it is a four-year university. The corrected chart reflects that NWOSU…
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