Posted in Education on March 9th, 2010 by Curtis Lacombe – Be the first to comment
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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Posted in Education on March 8th, 2010 by Martin Milius – Be the first to comment
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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Posted in Education on March 4th, 2010 by Jessica Durham – Be the first to comment
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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Posted in Education on March 2nd, 2010 by Martin Milius – Be the first to comment
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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Posted in Education on February 25th, 2010 by Jessica Durham – Be the first to comment
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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Posted in Education on February 23rd, 2010 by Curtis Lacombe – 1 Comment
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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Posted in Education on February 16th, 2010 by Martin Milius – Be the first to comment
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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Posted in Education on February 15th, 2010 by Curtis Lacombe – 1 Comment
The declining economic status of the nation has become an obstacle that most universities can’t compete with these days. The harsh reality of adaptation has come in the form of firings, open faculty positions, salary freezes, and furloughs. Probably one of the most painful changes colleges have made in order to survive is the tuition hikes to accommodate the lack of student enrollment so that they can maintain some semblance of their prior status. Of course, choices such as these only result in catch-22’s rather than positive change.
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Posted in Education on February 11th, 2010 by Jessica Durham – Be the first to comment
It’s no secret that the youth of today are much different than those 20, 30 and 40 years ago. There are different challenges and struggles. Media influence and advances in technology have generated a need for fast results and immediate success. Materialism and the need to have everything we want, has resulted in drastic changes in the way students view their educations.
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Posted in Education on January 21st, 2010 by Curtis Lacombe – Be the first to comment
Martin Luther King Jr. is considered by many to be one of the most inspiring and provocative figures in history that progressed our way of life by leaps and bounds. His essay entitled The Purpose of Education focused on discourse, empowerment, betterment, and hoped to inspire the populous in ways that few others have. The purpose of revolutionaries is to motivate great change across societal boundaries. Their affect is successful not just because it encourages immediate change, but rather because it’s a catalyst that works to promote it continuously through time. Leaders of motivation often think outside the realm of common thought to come up with new ideologies that generate growth and development in the human race.
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