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Thinking about a college degree

…compared with 4 percent for high school graduates and 3.8 percent for those with some college or an associate’s degree.” What’s more, this ahistoric inversion may not be sustainable. “Jeff…

What is college for?

…a homemaker, eventually raising five children. Needless to say, during that time she wasn’t earning the average salary of a high school grad—she wasn’t earning anything. She later went on…

Giving Up Teaching

…enjoyed this one so much that I want to go out on a high note. So thanks to The Creative School and the School of Interior Design at Toronto Metropolitan…

Does David Brooks Really Think Student Loans, Public Universities, Public Infrastructure, and Small Business Loans Are Attempts at Socialist Central Planning That Undermines Creativity and Private Enterprise? I Mean … REALLY?* [Appended 1/23]

…by some students whose families are not upscale! Yup. And that engineering and computer science school at the University of Illinois, regularly rated among the top such programs in the…

Wall Street’s War Against the Cities:

From Naked Capitalism: Wall Street’s War Against the Cities: Why Bondholders Can’t – and Shouldn’t – be Paid By Michael Hudson, a research professor of Economics at University of Missouri,…