“The American Dream Is Leaving America” (I Worry It’s Gone.)

I commented on this article by Nicholas Kristof.

The American Dream Is Leaving America – NYTimes.com.

I wrote,

” “…the annual survey of education should… be a shock to Americans…”

But it’s not.

Few Americans have the education about the inner workings of the educational establishment to understand why the report is so dismal. Here is a hint: it’s because of college, not k-12. College is where the money is. Follow the money.

(Readers of my blog, inside-higher-ed see how it works. I’m a former professor. I have seen this for decades but no change will occur until others see it, too. That is why I put stories and documents on my blog.)

What is far worse than a lack of knowledge of higher education is the vanishing ability of even reading and understanding what is happening in education, or anything. Once this has gone too far, there will be no fixing our democracy. (Again, as I point out on my blog, it starts in college and it’s about money, prestige, and the easy “marks” – once called “students” and voters.)

This is a sorry state of affairs that prescient observers like Clark Kerr and David Riesman saw coming in 1980. We have much work to do if we are going to fix it.