I wanted to comment further on the article in the previous post. “We are loaning too much money, that, in far too many cases, just goes to fill college coffers. In the meantime, the poor, uneducated “consumer” (once quaintly know as a “student”), gets to be fooled into thinking that she is getting an education. […]

I posted this thought on the following article. The Jobless Rate for Community-College Graduates Is Also Low – NYTimes.com. Mr. Leonhardt is confronted with a big problem in trying to understand higher education in America just from data and then concluding that college is contributing to the economy in an overwhelming way. The problem is […]

Is College Worth It? Clearly, New Data Say – NYTimes.com. Here is my view:   “Though there seems to be a paradox – a college degree is becoming more valuable, while a college education is getting worse – the answer is staring us in the face. Here is the explanation in two (of many) personal […]

In Getting Into the Ivies – NYTimes.com, which I refer to in a previous post , David Leonhardt refers to a paper by Alan Krueger and Stacy Dale.  From that paper Leonhardt concludes that “…there is still scant evidence that the selectivity of the college one attends matters much…”  I don’t reach the same conclusion, and […]