January 2012
31 posts
“Student loan debt now stands around $1 trillion. Education is often a great investment – but the proposition is more in question every day. Higher education prices increased 440% over the last 25 years – four times the rate of inflation, and twice as bad as health care. Elementary and secondary ed prices have skyrocketed, too, with not even adequate outcomes. On the other side of the ledger is the Moore’s law ecosystem, the most ruthless force in technology and the world economy. Last quarter Netflix streamed two billion hours worth of video – or 228,000 years worth in three months. In just the last week of December, smartphone and tablet owners gobbled up 1.2 billion apps – 43% by Americans. Twenty years ago, a terabyte hard drive, if such a thing had existed, might have cost $5 million. Today, you can pick one up for $69. The price of information plummets. Yet the price of education soars. These two trends cannot both continue. Guess which will crack first.”
—Apple and the Education-Information Chasm - Forbes (via infoneer-pulse)
“Higher education is not a luxury. It’s an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford.”
—President Obama speaking in Michigan today about his plans to make college more affordable (via barackobama)
“Teachers matter. So instead of bashing them, or defending the status quo, let’s offer schools a deal. Give them the resources to keep good teachers on the job, and reward the best ones. In return, grant schools flexibility: To teach with creativity and passion; to stop teaching to the test; and to replace teachers who just aren’t helping kids learn.”
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Obama (via kateoplis)
THIS.
(via ohmuffins)
I don’t live in the states but this sounds pretty damn ideal to me.
Passages from my Lit assignment
…But with you - I felt as though nothing could touch me, if anything happened, the Hell with it. You don’t know what narrow lives we girls have, how few real adventures there are for them; misadventures, yes, like abortions and little men following them in subways, but seldom anything like seeing the ships at night. So that’s why we’ve taken off like this, and that’s also part of why I love you.
Take care.
Love,
Joyce
-From “Door Wide Open” by Joyce Johnson
