Recession Could Push U.S. Further Behind in Global Education Race.

The article discusses the results of a paper on the impact of the recession on higher-education budgets. Researcher John Aubrey Douglass, of the Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California at Berkeley, found that the recession could alter the U.S.'s position in the global competition to educate more people and produce research. The U.S. management approach to its higher-education budget is contrasted with that of other countries.