Matthew Cheney"Blaming education for the fallout of decisions made by employers & policy makers ultimately established the chronically weak political status of education and provided justification for decades of misplaced reforms in both K–12 and higher education. And the assumption became entrenched that individuals not thriving in the so-called knowledge economy should take personal responsibility for their educational and skill deficits."
http://www.aaup.org/article/mythical-labor-markets-and-demographic-crises-education-reform-movement
Mythical Labor Markets and Demographic Crises of the Education Reform Movement
The Agile College: How Institutions Successfully Navigate Demographic Changes by Nathan D. Grawe. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2021. Economist Nathan Grawe’s 2018 Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education set off shock waves in the higher education community by crystallizing the “demographic-cliff” narrative. Grawe argued that the nation faced the prospect of substantially fewer students attending college in the coming years, a decline that would necessarily be destructive to a tuition-driven system.