Look, Kristof gets it!

I meant to post this Nic Kristof column as soon as it ran last Sunday.

It’s one of those rare times a journalist who doesn’t report exclusively on education actually recognizes the industry’s importance.

Kristof’s column was inspired by the $100 billion President Barack Obama allocated for education in the new fiscal stimulus package passed last week. In it, he says he used to think our “greatest national shame” was health care — but now, he said , he believes it’s education.

(Wow.)

Kristof focuses a bit more on secondary education in his column, but much of what he said addresses or applies to higher education as well:

” … America’s educational edge created prosperity and equality alike — but that this edge was eclipsed in about the 1970s, and since then one country after another has surpassed us in education. Perhaps we should have fought the “war on poverty” with schools” — Nic Kristof

Now we can only hope the Kristof following gets it, too.

Posted February 20, 2009 at 1:34 pm by Erica R. Hendry | Share on Facebook
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