Education And The Economy
With unemployment trending up the jobs numbers are getting a lot of attention. But what’s buried in there and getting less notice is the numbers by educational attainment. The problems are hardly equally distributed and again the returns to education are apparent. In an increasingly post-industrial economy someone remind me again why post-secondary education or training for all is not a vital national goal? For instance, as a policy hook, why shouldn’t states make the post-secondary prep or college-prep track the default one in high schools so parents have to opt their kids out of that rather than into it? Update: Sherman Dorn has more.
February 11th, 2009 at 3:44 am
I agree. As it is now, it can even be cheaper for kids to study abroad than to stay in the States to get the education they need for a secure life in the future.
February 11th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
I agree. As far as Hispanics are concerned, we first need to help students stay at school, make sure schools are offering quality curricula-even or more so, at urban schools where poor kids and minorities attend; help my fellow Hispanics see the value of staying in school, graduate from high school, and then they will be motivated to get into college. But you have a great point; maybe that way we can decrease dropout rates among Hispanics.