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Article: Meeting new challenges at home and abroad: liberal education's new premium.(Liberal Education & America's Promise)
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- Liberal Education
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- June 22, 2006
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IN JANUARY 2006, the New York Times headlined a new $3.75 billion federal initiative that would give $750 grants to low-income college students who successfully completed a "rigorous secondary school program of study" (Dillon 2006). These grants would increase for juniors and seniors with particular declared majors. We couldn't ask for higher-level acknowledgment that we're on the right track with Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP) but, from my perspective as a top official in Wisconsin's executive branch, I argue that this quiet addition to the budget bill could well hobble our ability to meet and sustain the goals of the LEAP campaign in our state--and in ...