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REL N

Education Week: Poll: Students Grade High School Down, College Up - 2 views

www.edweek.org/...421715_ap.html

ADMS707 Niemeyer Mission Effectiveness

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  • A majority say their school wasn't good at helping them choose a field of study, aiding them in finding the right college or vocational school or assisting them in coming up with ways to pay for more schooling.
  • getting students ready for work remains central to high schools' mission.
  • most young people say their school didn't do a good job of preparing them for work or helping them choose a future career.
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  • The one category where young people rated high schools best was preparing them for further education: 56 percent say their school did a good or excellent job at that.
  • 4 in 10 young people voice strong satisfaction with their high school education.
  • Dill, now 21, self-employed and living with her father in Arcadia, La., thinks high schools should offer juniors and seniors workshops on how to get a job, how to build a career and the many educational options besides a four-year degree.
  • Almost half of college attendees feel that the schools "get" them. That's significantly more than among those whose education stopped at high school; just 3 in 10 say the school system could identify with them.
  • Nonwhite students were more likely than whites to say their high school counselors helped them, and also gave their high schools better ratings for helping find money for college.
  • Georggetta Howie on 19 Apr 11
     
    Thanks for sharing. This is true and in my case and majority of my peers. My success in going to college goes to my mentors!
Phil Riddle

Degrees and Dollars - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...07krugman.html

College Degrees Technology

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  • Phil Riddle on 08 Mar 11
     
    Krugman argues that technological innovations actually hurt certain types of middle-class white collar positions the most, not lower paying blue collar jobs like many assume. He doesn't provide numbers to back up his claims, but he just might not of had the space.
mirabilecp

Danny Miller: Go See the Other Education Documentary: The Race to Nowhere - 4 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...e-iotheri-educat_b_722159.html

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  • mirabilecp on 01 Feb 11
     
    Wonder if VCU is hosting this new documentary?
  • REL N on 01 Feb 11
     
    As a parent of two children who participated in highly competitive programs, I am eager to see this movie. While I am impressed with the support and passion that some of their teachers provided, I (actually both my husband and I) at times wondered if the children were being pushed too much with an unintended consequence that there was less time to focus on the other parts of "growing up." We convinced our daughter to cut down to "only" 5 IB/AP classes in her senior year. She initially resisted but eventually found that the extra time was valuable. And, she was no worse off when getting to college. While she came into college with 36 IB/AP hours, only 12 were applied to her degree. I'm interested in feedback from educators too. It would seem that if they are tasked with moving the children through such aggressive programs they may find they lose sight of each child as an individual.
  • mirabilecp on 02 Feb 11
     
    Yes...I get it...I am an IB teacher myself. But, I have learned that no everyone wants to be an overachiever in that academic sort of way...and we should all be okay with that...thanks for your comment!
Roger Mancastroppa

Accreditation Discrimination: Impact on School Choice, Costs, and Professional Prospect... - 0 views

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ADMS707 reform education politics Federal states

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  • Roger Mancastroppa on 06 Feb 11
     
    "we see a society built around profit and monetary gains where the major force driving educational institutions and their enrollees is money; pure profit and economic factors for the majority" "As a result of the uncontrollable turn that modern society has taken in terms of our emergence in a contemporary world built on profit maximization and survivalist economics and materialism, and propulsion toward a future of uncertainty for which we must gather wealth by any means necessary, the degree of competition among us in all walks of life and on all platforms has dramatically increased, and the workplace or proscenium upon which the dramatis personae of economic theories; firms, households, and governments must play, has turned into the battleground where technological advancement, increased knowledge, and the need for more specialized and skilled workers have driven us to commoditize learning opportunities in the form of training and education at an alarming rate. The rate of consumption which the market demands of education and training - knowledge and skills demand and consumption, has left schools, colleges, and universities competing among each other in desperate and even despicable ways, such that education in the form of mere training and book-scanning that the majority offers, has become just another "player" and card in Capitalism's game and race to the bottom of the consciousness funnel."
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