West coast cities are a “mess,” says Nicholas Kristof, a New York Times columnist (see story here). He’s specifically referring to homelessness, drug use, lower high school graduation rates, and lower home unaffordability because of restrictions on residential construction. Kristof[...]
Posts Tagged ‘education’
September 20th, 2017 - 6:29 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
Inflation on Campus
American Enterprise InstituteLike Page March 25 at 3:00pm · There is no other consumer good or service whose price has increased over the last 20 years that even comes close to the soaring cost of college tuition and college textbooks, which have both tripled in price and increased by 200% since 19[...]
September 17th, 2017 - 12:17 am § in Schools & Colleges
Doing Free College Correctly
MAKING COLLEGE FREE Posted by Mark Huelsman Last April, New York became the first state in the country to return to a guarantee of tuition-free college for students at state public colleges and universities. The move is being touted as a historic moment and a step toward making college affordable ag[...]
February 11th, 2017 - 1:45 am § in Misc.
Re-educating the public
Overturning Citizen’s United won’t change the electorate or outdated instruction. “Industry’s war against science isn’t limited to climate change. A host of public relations campaigns over the last five decades have spent billions of dollars with the express purpose of sowing p[...]
Our Legislature sees higher education as vocational school.
Katherine Long at the Seattle Times reports that our legislators are likely to pass a bill reducing the time needed for a bachelor’s degree to three years. Under the bill, Degree in Three , Central Washington University, Western Washington University, Eastern Washington[...]
October 7th, 2015 - 9:01 am § in Misc.
Images of the 21st Century: French Post Cards: 5
SEEMORE OF THE FUTURE, from the fin de siécle.[...]
September 26th, 2015 - 1:12 am § in Schools & Colleges
The Land of the Setting Sun Watches Its Universities Sink as The Sea Rises
Japan Dumbs Down Its Universities ….Noah Smith Most people who follow news from Japan will be paying attention to the economy, or possibly to the fist-fight that broke out in the Diet over security policy. But there was a huge and very worrying change in Japanese education policy that someh[...]
Black Teachers