Certainly this idea, Helping the Poor in Education: The Power of a Simple Nudge – NYTimes.com doesn’t hurt, but we can do much better.
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Helping someone get a college “degree” – without a college “education” – only helps at the periphery; especially when they only have a high school “degree”, but no high school “education”.
Even worse, it raises revenues for the culprits behind the demise of high school education. Here is the extremely short version of why higher education is the culprit behind “lower” high school education. I will state it in terms of questions to think about.
Where do high school teachers get (or, more likely, not get) their education?
Where do “professors” who teach these future teachers get their so-called PhD? (sometimes with government money which universities take a large share of).
The details, with examples, of how all of this happens, and the impact, especially of the faux-PhDs, can be found in the categories “University Education Dumbs Down High School” and “Regional State Schools – What Does a Future High School Teacher Get? Look Here” that are on my blog inside-higher-ed
If, as the Obama administration is trying to do, we hold colleges accountable, we might have a chance of regaining a well educated populace; and, thus, return to being the great economy and democracy that we use to be.
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