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How a national student database could cheapen the college experience

  • Written by Nicholas Tampio, Professor of Political Science, Fordham University
How a national student database could cheapen the college experienceThe proposed database would focus on income. Andy Sacks/Getty Images

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has proposed that the federal government create a database that includes information on outcomes for individual college graduates, such as how much money they earn after they get a degree in a particular major. That’s according to a repor...

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