Interesting tweets of the week in education:
- Here's a way to solve the dilemma in paying for college....Obama tells University of Michigan rich should pay more http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/27/obama-tells-university-of-michigan-rich-should-pay-more/ Class warfare at its finest.
- Note to Benjamin Braddock in "The Graduate". It's not "plastics". It's "education"....Education industry accounted for an estimated $10 billion in mergers & acquisitions last year: bit.ly/xFSrFs
- Oops...Potty-mouthed science teacher resigns after allegedly having raunchy convos with kids http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/potty-mouthed-science-teacher-resigns-allegedly-raunchy-convos-kids-article-1.1013341
- This might be difficult given our $16 Trillion national debt and states facing budget shortfalls....Obama Education Secretary: Teachers Should Be Paid Six-Figure Salaries http://bit.ly/yIPyEm
- The Department of Education employees need to take accounting and citizenship courses to become good role models instead of following Timothy Giethner's example...Dept of Education and Housing/Urban Development employees OWE MOST BACK TAXES! http://is.gd/puNmMP
Educational thought for the week:
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year. --John Foster Dulles
The biggest bubble in the American economy is higher education (http://bit.ly/zhcu7i). I see only two ways to tackle it: let it pop or try to keep feeding it borrowed money.
ReplyDeleteObama likes the borrowed money approach.