The College Board is in a panic because U.S. college graduation rates have fallen behind those of eleven other developed countries. We must "improve education from preschool through higher education," says Gaston Caperton. By this he presumably means throwing more money at it, the solution that has worked so brilliantly for the public schools.
Well, we can't possibly dumb down our universities any more than we already have--I live in a university town, and I claim some expertise. So here's what we should do: let's give a Bachelor of Arts to every high school graduate, perhaps even a Bachelor of Science to the girls so as to solve the gender imbalance in the physical sciences. Then the universities could award the Doctor of Philosophy (or medicine, or law) at the end of four years of what is fancifully called higher education, and which in any event now commonly requires five years. This will have the additional advantage of doubling or trebling the number of physicians, who will be needed to care for the 32 million (!) becoming eligible for health care at taxpayer expense. Plus, all our grade-school teachers with be PhDs, which will go far to improve the quality of the whole process. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford
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