Report shows U.S. falling
By Shea Connelly and Kelly Morenus | December 4, 2008A study released Dec. 3 by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education shows that higher education in the commonwealth of Virginia, as well as in the United States as a whole, needs to improve efforts to provide affordable education to remain competitive internationally.Stacey Zis, research associate with the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems and co-author of the study, said the study, ?Measuring Up 2008,? is intended to be a national report card for higher education.The center releases a report on higher education in the United States as a whole, Zis said, as well as a report for each individual state.
