John’s Reviews > Is College Worth It?: A Former United States Secretary of Education and a Liberal Arts Graduate Expose the Broken Promise of Higher Education > Status Update
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K-12 spending has tripled over the last 50 years, and the results are getting worse not better. Until K-12 education improves dramatically, there is only so much room for improvement in higher education. The crime here, beyond the squandering of public dollars, is the waste of time we inflict on children. 12 years of education are compulsory, and many kids have nothing to show for it afterward.
— Mar 16, 2014 07:55AM
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John
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58% of all first-time students who started 4 year schools in 2004 graduated within 6 years. Why should America tell its high school graduates that college is always the best investment, when many pay an enormous amount of $ for no degree? With unemployment rate for recent grads hovering around 50%, we suspect the calculus for the return on college is likely to change.
— Mar 16, 2014 10:56AM
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The Journal of American College Health found that 42% of students living in coed dorms binge drink each week, compared to only 18% of non-coed residents. Almost needless to say, the study found binge drinkers do worse in school, sleep less, and disrupt other students more.
— Mar 16, 2014 10:12AM
John
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In 1960, 75% of professors were full-time, tenure-track professors. Today, only 27% are. Many colleges and university's are more concerned with their bottom lines than their student's academic well-being.
— Mar 16, 2014 12:20AM
John
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In 1960 fewer than 10% 25 and older Americans had a college degree, By 2012, the number was a little more than 30%. Harvard predicts only 1/3 of jobs created in the near future will require a BS or higher.
— Mar 13, 2014 09:17PM
John
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29 states allocated less money to higher education in 2011-12 than they did in 2006-07.
— Mar 13, 2014 07:51PM
John
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"If you live like a professional while you are in school, you will live like a student while a professional."
— Mar 13, 2014 06:45PM
John
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The number of PhD recipients on food stamps and other forms of welfare more than tripled between 2007 and 2010. College tuition and fees rose over 400 percent between 1982 and 2007.
— Mar 13, 2014 01:55PM
John
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12 million full-time postsecondary students in US, this debt is spread far and wide across the US economy. 1 in 5 households owe student debt; 40% of households headed by someone 35 and younger.
— Mar 13, 2014 11:47AM