31 sats \ 4 replies \ @kepford OP 9 Jul \ parent \ on: It Is Time to Treat Higher Education as the Business It Is meta
I have a VERY hard time believing the NEA is correct on that. But, even if they are I would say this is a good thing.
Chose your own information source, but you won't trust those, either. We are talking about public schools so the data is collected by the state governments, federal governments or the unions. Although, the big state universities will often hire a consulting firm, like Bain, that has alumni working for them.
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Here's why I don't trust it. I haven't verified it. But for most of my life I have heard stuff like this and almost always the truth is that rate of increase has decreased. Or the way the money was allocated was changed. Or the way they measure money being spent on students was changed. That's what I'm saying.
There has been a trend for some time of spending more education money on administrators for example. Many in education push back on this, but the core problem is as the article states. There isn't a market incentive. Public education is not the real world. There are still good people in the systems but the systems themselves are rotten.
IMO there shouldn't be any public schools at all and definitely not so called public universities.
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I agree. But they can make the point better without the faulty information. Otherwise, they are only preaching to the choir. Which may be their aim. It is for so many media outlets today.
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I agree with you there. Not sure that is happening here. Maybe it is
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