Student Debt vs Graduate Jobs

[Buzz]

Have you read what the GOP offered? Don't be so smug until you do.

[Barfly]

You sound like you don't know Buzz... it's a simple google search... or youtube if you prefer to watch.

[Buzz]

No, I sounded like Pud didn't read it.

[Pudfark]

Read it? Buzz...really?
How's about I posted it.

[callmeslick]

The bottom line on the sequester is simple: a 6.8% reduction in all budgets, across the board, for everything except the protected areas, which are, as the bill stated: Medicare and Social Security reimbursements, Government employee salaries(although, those are fixed, no raises), Food Stamp and Child Welfare programs. The cuts are across all remaining programs, all remaining depts. The executive branch has the task of figuring out how to make such cuts(and nearly 7% is not an insignificant amount). Doing so with the least impact on the economy is no mean trick, as Europe has spent the past three years showing how slashing government spending during a recovery can lead to double-dip recessions.

Now, I don't expect this to be something Pud will grasp, or even try to. And further, I see no relationship to overall levels of professional employment over the lifetime of a recent graduate.

[Pudfark]

"I see no"....per usual.
I agree that a responsible budget is beyond yours and Obama's grasp.
Which is why Obama must step down, he lacks the education, experience
and leadership.

"Debt, learn from it"...

[callmeslick]

see post on other thread, and the above as a prime example......ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

[Pudfark]

Here ya go...

http://www.hoover.org/publications/defi ... cle/141356

Everything said there....relates here.
Proof?
You.

[callmeslick]

biased piece of claptrap bullshit. Proof? None needed, beyond the simple realization that the vast bulk of a college degree is about HOW to think, not WHAT to think. Also, the development of research skills, state-of-the-art scientific knowledge and high-level language skills, none of which would be affected, even if one gets one's panties in a bunch over supposed political/free speech issues(which, in my opinion are negligible and overblown by folks who fear education).

[callmeslick]

why am I so harsh in my judgement...? From Lukinoff's text9with my comments in red):

More dangerously, schools of education impose “political litmus tests” on those who want to become public teachers. They vet students’ “dispositions,” especially their commitment to the left-wing notion of “social justice.” One of the most prestigious education schools in the country, Columbia University’s Teachers College, tells its students that teaching is a “political act.” Aspiring teachers are expected to be “participants in a larger struggle for social justice” and “to change the system and make schools and societies more equitable.” of, course, Columbia is right. Anything which contributes to a more learned society impacts the political awareness of the electorate, and is, hence a 'political act'. As the author frequently does, he makes blanket statements with the assumption that the wording is some sort of code. Once again, the idea of social justice should never be seen as liberal or conservative, but is the founding principle of our Constitution and system.

Lukianoff points out the problem with such politicized pedagogy: “Vague, subjective, and politicized evaluation standards are dangerous.and yet, what does he do? He makes vague, subjective and politicized charges, and.....yes, I read his book when it came out, never bothers to really back them up with anything but cherry-picked horror stories They invite administrators and faculty members to substitute their own opinions and political beliefs for fair, professional criteria to evaluate students’ demonstrated skills as members of a profession.” Competence, then, takes a backseat to political correctness, a problem rife in K-12 teaching credential programs, where knowledge of subject matter is less important than political ideology.utter nonsense, once again.....the concept of most higher ed that we are talking about here, such as professional science, medicine, business or other professions, has utterly no relation to political belief. I neither knew nor cared what the politics of my Biochemistry profs were, it never would have mattered.