(CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR) – America’s education landscape can feel like a battlefield with wars being waged over reading, cultural issues, school funding, and college admission processes.
But at a breakfast with reporters hosted by The Christian Science Monitor on Wednesday, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona emphasized the need for a level playing field as students from all walks of life move from early childhood programs through college or apprenticeship training. Calling out the latter, he says the nation has a “broken higher education system.”
Runaway costs, he says, have saddled too many people with student loan debt or prevented them from stepping foot into a college or university altogether.
