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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s a shame that in the US you can’t go “out of state” without paying more. I believe that our public universities could be even better if they had national student bodies like other countries’ public universities do. In Canada, no one respects the private universities; the public ones are the best. And no one is turning down McGill or U of T because they can’t afford it like kids in the US have to in places like Pennsylvania, Illinois, Maine, New Hampshire, and others I’m sure.

We need some fully tuition subsidized national public universities, preferably with students being chosen solely through entrance exams. [/quote]

What you said sounds all good until you hit the line who pays it. [b]Each state has its own financials and spending philosophy. The tax payers do not want to finance the education of students from other states[/b]. This is why you have in-state college benefit for the tax payers of the state. Seems natural to me.[/quote]

That’s why are state schools (many of them at least) are 80% instate and change, which feels provincial to me. I don’t agree with the philosophy or believe it is a successful one. I also don’t think it’s the most meritocratic one. [/quote]

You have to look at the whole state system and that the aim is not wholly meritocratic.  Are the primary problems of our country that the smartest people aren't getting enough opportunities?? I don't  think so--we're great at that.  Higher ed serves a regional job market, it has downward pressure to influence the quality of educational investment in preK-12 schools.  If it were all meritocratic we'd have worse polarization outcomes with kids from rich, well-educated areas flooding all the schools and the majority of kids from elsewhere left in the dust.  We can already see how much a functioning democracy rests on a well-educated citizenry--do we really want to worsen that by giving more education prizes to those already at the top?  Good state schools that give local students a solid education and access to careers are one of the few democratizing forces in this country which is already so uneven.  [/quote]

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