This post is a reprint of a piece I published in Quartz in 2017. Here's a link to the original. It's an effort to explore the distinctively populist character of American higher education. The idea is that a key to understanding the strong public support that US colleges and universities have managed to generate is … Continue reading Nobel prizes are great, but college football is why American universities dominate the globe
David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing 