America’s indentured graduates

by E Wayne Ross on December 6, 2006

Christian Science Monitor: America’s indentured graduates

Adults often complain about mixed signals they get from teens, but what about the messages teens get? Here’s one with major life implications: Go to college, but graduate with a load of debt. Oh yeah, like that makes getting a degree look real attractive.

The economic health of America’s information-driven society depends on how well it educates its young people. So it can’t afford to shrug off the mounting student-debt problem with a mere “whatever.”

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