A Shared History, a Shared Future?
As Americans around the world celebrated last week their forefathers' courage to throw off British rule and give birth to a new country 236 years ago, we must also recognize that our relationship with Great Britain is a complicated one. Our legal systems, the English Common Law and the American Legal System, share many core tenets. In terms of military cooperation, trade and commerce, economic activity, nuclear weapons technology, and the sharing of intelligence, you would be hard-pressed to find any two world powers more closely tied to one another. They may soon share yet another burden - student debt and exploding tuition costs.
In an article published July 8th in The New York Times by D. D. Guttenplan, the author notes that many in Great Britain are concerned about the possibility that Britain could follow the United States' example, where the entrance of for-profit schools into the market exploited the very poor by saddling them with crushing debt and little prospects of earning a degree. Read on.
