A Bit of College Can Be Worse Than None at All – WSJ

A sad story, with some sad data can be found here:

A Bit of College Can Be Worse Than None at All – WSJ.

I commented.

“I’m a former professor.  I have seen this coming for decades, as have others.

There is a straightforward explanation for everything in this article – from employers needing college degreed people for jobs that only require a high school education, to low salaries for college graduates, and lower ones for high school grads.  Here is the explanation.

The higher education system has become corrupt when it comes to education.  The only reason it isn’t as corrupt when it comes to research is that consumers of research are much more sophisticated than “consumers” (once quaintly called “students”) of education are.

That corruption leads to poorly educated graduates.  Much worse, it leads to poorly educated high school graduates.  After all, if the teachers aren’t well educated, what else can one expect.

I can’t give all the facts to support my argument here, but “A Tale Out of School” and tales from regional schools,  all on my blog, make everything clear.  (My blog is inside-higher-ed .)”