Here’s what’s perhaps most unusual about President Obama’s big budget proposals for higher education: That he’s thinking about higher education at all.
Delineated in a handful of brash proposals Thursday, Obama’s plan to make college more affordable and within reach of more students represents a break from the approach that President Bush took â?? he focused much of his energy from Day 1 on improving K-12 education, most notably with his signature No Child Left Behind law.