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Everyone knows that America has the greatest higher-education system in the world. From humble beginnings in the colonies, our colleges and universities exploded upward and outward in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, opening their doors to students whose parents never dreamed of college, while simultaneously building an unrivalled constellation of elite research institutions. The combination of excellence and egalitarianism was unmatched and remains so today.
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Carey, K., Schneider, M. (2010). Introduction. In: Accountability in American Higher Education. Education Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230115309_1
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