Gregg Easterbrook proves (again) that his cost to The New Republic must be above his value:
Lower income families tend to be highly disorganized.
Is that why they're poor? Because they're disorganized. Or does being poor make you disorganized?
Posted by robe0419 at October 25, 2004 09:54 AM | TrackBackYeesh. My favorite eye-roller of a phrase: "race is no longer a barrier to college." My main beef is that Easterbrook doesn't address the fact that at a lot of expensive private colleges, families who can afford $30K+ annually for their child's education are subsidizing everyone else. The implication that since Harvard could afford to let poor and middle-class kids attend for nothing, so should every college is pretty irresponsible and doesn't have a lot to do with the reality of higher ed financing. It ain't a cheap enterprise, and Easterbrook doesn't acknowledge that at all.
Posted by: Stacie at October 26, 2004 10:25 AM