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    http://online.wsj.com/video/what-col...rticle_onespot
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    #2
    http://online.wsj.com/video/what-col...rticle_onespot

    Pretty interesting especially the last half of the clip.

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      #3
      Wow! Look at the grades the top colleges are getting from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni.

      http://online.wsj.com/video/what-col...rticle_onespot

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        #4
        Long read, but worth the time.

        "What if the Secret to Success Is Failure?"

        http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/ma...e&st=cse&scp=1

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          #5
          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
          Long read, but worth the time.

          "What if the Secret to Success Is Failure?"

          http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/ma...e&st=cse&scp=1
          “if a kid is a C student, and their parents think that they’re all-A’s, we do get a lot of pushback: ‘What are you talking about? This is a great paper!’ We have parents calling in and saying, for their kids, ‘Can’t you just give them two more days on this paper?’ Overindulging kids, with the intention of giving them everything and being loving, but at the expense of their character — that’s huge in our population. I think that’s one of the biggest problems we have at Riverdale.”

          This is a problem, of course, for all parents, not just affluent ones. It is a central paradox of contemporary parenting, in fact: we have an acute, almost biological impulse to provide for our children, to give them everything they want and need, to protect them from dangers and discomforts both large and small. And yet we all know — on some level, at least — that what kids need more than anything is a little hardship: some challenge, some deprivation that they can overcome, even if just to prove to themselves that they can. As a parent, you struggle with these thorny questions every day, and if you make the right call even half the time, you’re lucky.

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            #6
            After graduation, not much to look forward to these days.......

            http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/...-frm-container

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              #7
              OCTOBER 3, 2011

              What if the NFL Played by Teachers' Rules?
              Imagine a league where players who make it through three seasons could never be cut from the roster.

              By FRAN TARKENTON
              Imagine the National Football League in an alternate reality. Each player's salary is based on how long he's been in the league. It's about tenure, not talent. The same scale is used for every player, no matter whether he's an All-Pro quarterback or the last man on the roster. For every year a player's been in this NFL, he gets a bump in pay. The only difference between Tom Brady and the worst player in the league is a few years of step increases. And if a player makes it through his third season, he can never be cut from the roster until he chooses to retire, except in the most extreme cases of misconduct.

              Let's face the truth about this alternate reality: The on-field product would steadily decline. Why bother playing harder or better and risk getting hurt?

              No matter how much money was poured into the league, it wouldn't get better. In fact, in many ways the disincentive to play harder or to try to stand out would be even stronger with more money.

              Of course, a few wild-eyed reformers might suggest the whole system was broken and needed revamping to reward better results, but the players union would refuse to budge and then demonize the reform advocates: "They hate football. They hate the players. They hate the fans." The only thing that might get done would be building bigger, more expensive stadiums and installing more state-of-the-art technology. But that just wouldn't help.

              If you haven't figured it out yet, the NFL in this alternate reality is the real -life American public education system. Teachers' salaries have no relation to whether teachers are actually good at their job—excellence isn't rewarded, and neither is extra effort. Pay is almost solely determined by how many years they've been teaching. That's it. After a teacher earns tenure, which is often essentially automatic, firing him or her becomes almost impossible, no matter how bad the performance might be. And if you criticize the system, you're demonized for hating teachers and not believing in our nation's children.

              Inflation-adjusted spending per student in the United States has nearly tripled since 1970. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, we spend more per student than any nation except Switzerland, with only middling results to show for it.

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              Over the past 20 years, we've been told that a big part of the problem is crumbling schools—that with new buildings and computers in every classroom, everything would improve. But even though spending on facilities and equipment has more than doubled since 1989 (again adjusted for inflation), we're still not seeing results, and officials assume the answer is that we haven't spent enough.

              These same misguided beliefs are front and center in President Obama's jobs plan, which includes billions for "public school modernization." The popular definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results. We've been spending billions of dollars on school modernization for decades, and I suspect we could keep on doing it until the end of the world, without much in the way of academic results. The only beneficiaries are the teachers unions.

              Some reformers, including Bill Gates, are finally catching on that our federally centralized, union-created system provides no incentive for better performance. If anything, it penalizes those who work hard because they spend time, energy and their own money to help students, only to get the same check each month as the worst teacher in the district (or an even smaller one, if that teacher has been there longer). Is it any surprise, then, that so many good teachers burn out or become disenchanted?

              Perhaps no other sector of American society so demonstrates the failure of government spending and interference. We've destroyed individual initiative, individual innovation and personal achievement, and marginalized anyone willing to point it out. As one of my coaches used to say, "You don't get vast results with half-vast efforts!"

              The results we're looking for are students learning, so we need to reward great teachers who show they can make that happen—and get rid of bad teachers who don't get the job done. It's what we do in every other profession: If you're good, you get rewarded, and if you're not, then you look for other work. It's fine to look for ways to improve the measuring tools, but don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

              Our rigid, top-down, union-dictated system isn't working. If results are the objective, then we need to loosen the reins, giving teachers the ability to fulfill their responsibilities to students to the best of their abilities, not to the letter of the union contract and federal standards.

              Mr. Tarkenton, an NFL Hall of Fame quarterback with the Minnesota Vikings and the New York Giants from 1961 to 1978, is an entrepreneur who runs two websites devoted to small business education.

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                #8
                Interesting concept........

                http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/s...DttZoF1JEysCmM

                Seton Hall University cuts tuition for high achievers

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                  #9
                  http://finance.yahoo.com/college-edu...du-collegeprep

                  No. 1: Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y.
                  Tuition: $45,212
                  Total cost: $58,334

                  No. 2: University of Chicago
                  Tuition: $42,041
                  Total cost: $57,590

                  No. 3: The New School in New York, NY
                  Tuition: $37,610
                  Total cost: $57,199

                  No. 4: Washington University in St. Louis
                  Tuition: $41,992
                  Total cost: $56,930

                  No. 5: Columbia University in New York, NY
                  Tuition: $45,290
                  Total cost: $56,681

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                    #10
                    No Halloween????

                    http://www.bostonherald.com/news/col...sition=comment

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                      #11
                      October 20, 2011
                      The Economic Disappointment of Generation O
                      By Diana Furchtgott-Roth

                      WASHINGTON--Yet another resumé arrived in my email box this week, from a young man who graduated with a BA in economics and a minor in math last May, and has yet to find a job. He's a graduate of York College of Pennsylvania, with summer job experience as an engineering technician at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland.

                      Unable to find a job in an economy with persistently high unemployment because of weak job growth, Anthony Lewis is now looking for an unpaid internship. As a new entrant to the labor force he doesn't get unemployment insurance. He's just looking for a job.

                      Anthony is not alone. The unemployment rate in 2010 for newly graduated men and women with bachelor degrees was 9.2 percent, far higher than the 5.1 percent rate such adults experienced in 2005.

                      This is Generation O: the age cohort that contributed, registered, volunteered and voted for Barack Obama with greater intensity than we have seen since at least the 1960 presidential election. Since then, the effect of President Obama's failed economic policies has fallen most disproportionately on them.

                      The unemployment rates among Generation O not only suggest personal disappointment, but also large and lasting implications for them and for society.

                      A paper forthcoming in the American Economic Journal Applied Economics found that graduating in a recession leads to earnings losses that last for 10 years after graduation.

                      The authors, University of Toronto economics professor Philip Oreopoulos, Columbia University professor Till von Wachter, and economist Andrew Heisz of Statistics Canada, found that earnings losses are greater for new entrants to the labor force than for existing workers, who might see smaller raises, but who have jobs. In addition, recessions lead workers to accept employment in small firms that pay lower salaries.

                      That, in turn, may help to explain why there is in our country a creeping fear of downward mobility, a prospect that Generation O will not do as well as their parents.

                      Young male graduates have been particularly adversely affected, with an unemployment rate of 11 percent, compared to 7.9 percent for women. Five years ago male graduates had an unemployment rate of 5.8 percent, and the rate for females was 4.5 percent.

                      This divergence in male and female unemployment rates was a product of the last decade. In 2000 young men and women graduates had similar unemployment rates.

                      This is puzzling because young men tend to major in science, technology, engineering, math, and business, fields that should be in demand. However, young women may be finding jobs in the service sector, particularly education and health care, which has seen steady growth during the recession.

                      How would Generation O fare if they remained in school, and earned a master's degree? Not that much better. The unemployment rate for MA degree holders was 7.7 percent in 2010, up from 4.6 percent in 2005.

                      Breaking the data into subsets tells an even starker story. White males with bachelor's degrees are commonly regarded as a privileged class, but they have not been insulated from economic trends. According to unpublished Labor Department data, their unemployment rates have more than doubled over the past five years, from 5.2 percent in 2005 to 13.1 percent in 2010. Rates for white female grads have soared, from 4.1 percent in 2005 to 12.3 in 2010.

                      Black male BAs have fared even worse, with unemployment rates tripling from 6.5 percent in 2005 to 24 percent in 2010. This means that nearly one quarter of the black males who made it through a four-year degree program was unemployed.

                      Politicians and educators tell minority students that educational attainment is the path out of poverty, but this is not persuasive if 24 percent of our black male graduates are unemployed.


                      As if lack of a job isn't bad enough, large increases in college tuition in recent decades mean that Generation O is graduating with a lot of debt. According to Howard Dvorkin, founder of Consolidated Credit Counseling in Fort Lauderdale, students who graduated in 2011 left school with almost $23,000 in student loans, the most ever.

                      Anthony told me that he owes $21,000 in student loans, and he needs to start repayments in November.

                      That's one reason why rates of recent graduates living at home with either a parent or grandparent have increased. In 2005 the share of 20-24 year olds who had at least a bachelor's degree but were living at home was 36 percent, and it reached 43 percent in 2011.

                      It used to be that if you graduated from college with a degree you were assured of a job. For many in Generation O, this is no longer true.

                      It's not just bad luck, or President George W. Bush's fault, as Mr. Obama tries to suggest. Mr. Obama has promoted an Old Economy model that favors big corporations, labor unions and more government. But Generation O thrives best in a New Economy model that favors nimble start-ups, hard-charging union-free workplaces and minimal government interference.

                      Generation O voted for Barack Obama believing him to be a new kind of leader, but he has delivered them an Old Economy with European-style mandates (think Obamacare), sclerosis, and dysfunction. They put him in the White House, Barack Obama has consigned them to their parents' house. Clearly, only one side made out well on that deal.

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                        October 20, 2011
                        The Economic Disappointment of Generation O
                        By Diana Furchtgott-Roth

                        WASHINGTON--Yet another resumé arrived in my email box this week,....deal
                        You may have missed this in civics class (or maybe you are too young to remember civics class) but the president does not pass legislation. There is a process to pass legislation through both chambers of the house. So I would quibble about leaving this at Obama's doorstep alone. More rightfully, everytime Obama is mentioned, it should more accuaretly be: "Obama and the do-nothing Congress." Good helping of blame still left over for previous congresses (under Bush and Clinton) as well as Bush and to a somewhat lesser extent Clinton. Though the economy did well under the latter, gutting of financial regulation was not helpful.

                        We my be on our way to seeing a sitution as we have in Greece, end of old political divisions with focus on the cultural dvisions that are at the root of the problem:
                        Greece is split in two. On one side are politicians, bankers, tax evaders and media barons supporting the most class-driven, violent social and cultural restructuring western Europe has seen. The “other” Greece includes the overwhelming majority of the population. It was in evidence yesterday when up to 500,000 people took to the streets; the largest demonstration in living memory. The attempt to divide civil servants (ritually presented as lazy and corrupt) from private sector employees (the “tax evading” plumbers) has misfired. The only success the Papandreou government can boast is the abolition of the old right-left division – replaced by a divide between the elites and the people

                        http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...es-clear-elite

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                          #13
                          FIRE - The Foundation for Individual Rights in Educatiion

                          For three years, FIRE placed a full-page ad in U.S. News & World Report's Best Colleges issue to bring awareness to the schools that have most blatantly violated students' rights on campus. These Red Alert institutions have displayed severe and ongoing disregard for the fundamental rights of their students or faculty members and are the "worst of the worst" when it comes to liberty on campus. Students should think twice before attending these schools.

                          Bucknell University
                          Michigan State University
                          Colorado College
                          Brandeis University
                          Tufts University
                          Johns Hopkins University

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                            #14
                            Discrimination against Asian students. How ridiculous! Out of political correctness known as "diversity", the smart kids are left by the wayside.

                            http://news.yahoo.com/asians-college...174442977.html

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                              #15
                              The OWS people have to wonder why they can't get a job after graduation? Maybe this will shed some light on the reasons.

                              http://blog.heritage.org/2011/12/09/...-of-higher-ed/

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