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Highest proportion of college graduates in the world?

Quality, not quantity of higher education degree holders is what is important. It is not hard to churn out a lot of engineers, teachers, and accountants. All you need to do it lower standards and make universities so poor they engage in the race to the bottom (that’s the Russian solution). But I suppose, if you are making a speech for the members of Congress, you cannot say something boring like: by 2020, America will develop a national assessment system for its higher education system. Or something like this: we will be able to prove that American colleges are highly competitive in comparison with leading universities of the world. So, I hope the goal of highest proportion of college grads in the world will be promptly forgotten, just like all those Goals 2000 and other great leaps forward. Remember, in 1990, it was believed that by the year 2000, “United States students will be first in the world in mathematics and science achievement.”