Opinion: Success of New GI Bill Rests with Veterans (The Tennessean)
"In the end, the onus for the success of the post-9/11 GI Bill rests squarely on both the shoulders of the veterans who will use the benefits to pursue higher education, and the universities that will provide that education," writes Mike Krause, who served two tours in Iraq with the 101st Airborne Division, and is now a graduate student of education policy at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College, in The Tennessean. "How well those two entities function together may well determine if the modern incarnation of the GI Bill has the same sweeping effects as its predecessor did in the years after World War II."
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