Purpose of Education

It seems that today’s college students just can’t win. After getting accepted to college, taking out loans to pay for it, and working hard to graduate, students are dissatisfied with the outcome.

However disenchanted students may feel, they are not alone. And for some recent graduates, graduating into the unknown is the minor problem. Some students are not only graduating into obscurity, but they’re also wondering if staying in America is feasible and if it’s even a possibility. Illegal immigrants graduating from colleges across the country are finding themselves in a whirlwind of the unknown. read more »

A peculiar practice is taking place at the American University in Cairo, Egypt —Students are learning to unlearn.

Unlearn things that they have been taught their entire lives and learn a little something about themselves as people. Students are encouraged to figure out exactly who they are in life, where they are from and where they are going.

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Major changes in education are affecting thousands of teachers and over nine million school students.

Budget cuts and new federal guidelines for teacher credentials have thousands of teachers and staff out of schools, and students are taking the biggest hit. Poor kids in small rural towns are left to pay the price.

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The price of education has begun to play more to absurdities than certain rationale. As the economy lingers in uncertainty our nation-wide school system has apparently fallen to even lesser degrees than before. In a Huffington Post editorial piece, Bail out Our Schools by former Secretary of Labor and Professor at Berkley Robert Reich, explains that $4.35 billion in federal funds have now been designated for the nation’s public schools by the Obama administration. However, with such an economic downturn even such a generous amount will have us breaking even at best.

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You would think that since the years of Martin Luther King Jr. racism would have been completely abolished. Yet, there are many instances of it still occurring today. Numerous parents, students, and teachers are reporting such instances at universities across the country.

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A state budget cut is affecting more than 21,000 college students in California. The Los Angeles Times reports the one percent change in the school year, reversing the growth trend of the past five years.

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America is the land of opportunity. What opportunities are we giving our citizens if they don’t get a college education? College education provides the best potential for future success. But it is expensive and those expenses affect the economy and American citizens. Is education worth the cost?

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The New York Times reports a study on what parents think about their children’s college education. The study found that ninety percent of parents believe their children will attend college, but very few have confidence in the way colleges are being managed.

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What does a letter grade really determine? For some graduates it’s the entire infrastructure on which their progressive careers stand. Grade inflation has become the sordid topic in the academic world for years now and has sparked many debates on how it should be rightfully handled. The statistical number of higher grades received has risen so greatly in some schools that questions have been raised: Is the work becoming too easy; and if so, does this explain why so many students are getting A’s? Have studying practices become so advanced that they have catapulted an alarming number of students into excellence all at once?

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From the devastating earthquakes in Haiti, the educational institutions were destroyed. It will take time to rebuild and reestablish the country. This horrible disaster has not only shaken the Haitian nation, but the world.

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