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Newsweek: Majority of Republicans Say Colleges Are Bad for America

posted by mrpg on Tuesday July 11 2017, @04:55AM   
from the Can't-fix-it dept.

aristarchus writes:

In a shift from a mere couple of years ago, when a majority of Republican-Americans thought that higher education was a good thing, the majority of them now believe the opposite.

A Pew Research Center survey published Monday revealed voters have grown apart in their support of secondary education since the 2016 presidential election season, when a majority of Democratic and Republican Americans agreed the nation’s universities serve as a benefit for the U.S. Whereas 54 percent of Republicans said "colleges and universities had a positive impact on the way things were going in the country" in 2015, the majority now believe the opposite, with 58 percent saying such institutions negatively impact the state of the union.

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• Re:College isn't for everyone (Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Tuesday July 11 2017, @06:37PM

  by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday July 11 2017, @06:37PM (#537728) Journal

  which of the above points you take such offense at?

  You are pulling a khallow. The points you bring up have some truth in them, but they are also irrelevant to the topic at hand. They are not enough to bring higher education as a whole into disrepute, and they are not the reason that Republicans specifically have shifted in their view of higher education. So stop being an ass, stop trying to change the subject.

  (Nice to see that khallow his own self STILL is unable to differentiate knowledge from claims to knowledge, and expertise from authority. )

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