A Mid-Atlantic Miracle
If you had to pick one institution that best exemplifies the American dream, what would it be? The institutions that arguably come closest to embodying the idea that anyone, regardless of family background, can make it on the basis of ability and hard work are the nation’s public universities. But the promise of social mobility that public universities represent is increasingly unraveling because of high tuition costs. However the state of Maryland has successfully bucked the higher-tuition trend when no other public university system or state was able to do so. Jon Marcus, The Washington Monthly, Oct. 23, 2009
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