"College is still America's great equalizer, the opportunity for those born into less privilege to achieve the American dream through a good education. What we should be focused on is how to provide this opportunity to more people, not discourage anyone from reaching higher," writes Lawrence Schall, president of Oglethorpe University, in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "Nemko's idea that a program like No Child Left Behind is the answer for higher education, I'd encourage him to talk to a schoolteacher or two about what the narrowness of that vision of education has done to learning. The American system of higher education, with all its diversity and choice, is the best in the world. Instead of promoting less education, let's commit to graduating more young people from high school and encouraging them to take advantage of the vast array of choices for the future: from big to small colleges, technical schools to arts colleges. Let's commit to removing the financial barriers to a college degree that so many students of less privilege face."