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The cost of higher education
Several months ago Mike Konczal had a piece, The [University of North Carolina] Coup and the Second Limit of Economic Liberalism. An excerpt: The UNC System Board of Governors voted unanimously to cap...
View ArticleSTEM skills and education
Two very good posts: Jamie Hall, 3 data science skills that economists can use Chad Orzel, Planning To Study Science In College? Here’s Some Advice As stated in the title, Orzel’s advice is intended...
View ArticleAll in a day at nursery school
From the daily teacher’s email: [Today] we read a book about how dinosaurs eat and we asked the children what they thought dinosaurs ate. Here are their words: [Child #1]: Meat [Child #2]: Garbage...
View ArticleThought for the Day – July 18, 2017
I read a piece in the NYT today on “pragmatic” Democratic governors. (The NYT reporter uses “pragmatic” and “pro-corporate” interchangeably where I don’t believe it’s justified, but I digress.) One of...
View ArticleThought for the Day: September 7, 2020
Northeastern dismissed 11 students the other day for violating COVID-19 social distancing rules. The university dismissed them but kept their $36,500 tuition. The elephant is the room is how did...
View ArticleThought for the Day – January 31, 2021
“Maybe it wasn’t such a great idea to reduce the number of classes that teach civics, democracy and American history?” -Michael Beschloss
View ArticleThought for the Day – December 18, 2021
Betty Hall, founder of Simon’s Rock, on education: “There is a four-year span here when youth should become acquainted with the whole range of human inquiry – man in relation to his physical...
View ArticleStudent Loan Foregiveness
So tonight I log on for the first time in god knows how long and I see an draft of a post I started to write in 2020. I haven’t touched it since – still just a brain dump and excerpts of pieces other...
View ArticleMore on Student Loan Forgiveness
Addison Del Mastro’s essay, Could You Loan Some Forgiveness?, is the best I’ve read on the subject to date. An excerpt: It’s the human cost of these loans, and the aura of fraud about them—the fact...
View Article“Americans need to think about the choices contributing to student debt.”
As much as I agree with Addison Del Mastro re $10k of loan forgiveness now, Tom Nichols has the right take on the path forward. At this point, no one contemplating taking out a loan to pay for college...
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