Data: 2009-10-09 09:58:34 | |
Autor: Me | |
( swiatelko) FIVU: Breaking out of the debilitating denial on the status of the American mind | |
This is after the calming effects of vacations that I did not mention
once that the plain indolence reported at the Revolution first, however not representative for the whole; and the globalising asses is yield to the caurageus Nobelist. WE DO NEED TO BREAK OUT OF THE DENIAL TO ADDRESS THE MATTER What does professor say about the overall level of the American education? ( issue first blant when the 'choco jerker' produced on the DC lawn, manufactured in EU was not possinle to recreate or even open; after Condi payed 1 mln for it and harvard employed a new 'control' engineer; consider this opnly representative to the players of this interaction with CIA as intermediary) Until now, the results of educational neglect have been gradual — a slow-motion erosion of America’s relative position. But things are about to get much worse, as the economic crisis — its effects exacerbated by the penny-wise, pound-foolish behavior that passes for “fiscal responsibility” in Washington — deals a severe blow to education across the board. About that erosion: there has been a flurry of reporting recently about threats to the dominance of America’s elite universities. What hasn’t been reported to the same extent, at least as far as I’ve seen, is our relative decline in more mundane measures. America, which used to take the lead in educating its young, has been gradually falling behind other advanced countries. Most people, I suspect, still have in their minds an image of America as the great land of college education, unique in the extent to which higher learning is offered to the population at large. That image used to correspond to reality. But these days young Americans are considerably less likely than young people in many other countries to graduate from college. In fact, we have a college graduation rate that’s slightly below the average across all advanced economies. |
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