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Is U.S. Higher Education A Bubble Economy? (Infographic Video) | Co.Design: business + innovation + design
Plenty of smart people seem to think there’s a bubble in higher education . And for good reason: The cost of a college education is skyrocketing and student debt is growing out of control, at the very same time that college graduates are struggling to find jobs. When they do, it’s often in positions that hardly require any of the "critical thinking" they were told a college education would teach them.
At Waldorf School in Silicon Valley, Technology Can Wait - NYTimes.com
The Waldorf method is nearly a century old, but its foothold here among the digerati puts into sharp relief an intensifying debate about the role of computers in education. “I fundamentally reject the notion you need technology aids in grammar school,” said Alan Eagle, 50, whose daughter, Andie, is one of the 196 children at the Waldorf elementary school; his son William, 13, is at the nearby middle school.
At Waldorf School in Silicon Valley, Technology Can Wait - NYTimes.com
But the school’s chief teaching tools are anything but high-tech: pens and paper, knitting needles and, occasionally, mud.
We agreed that countries we are now competing with, such as India and China, are investing heavily in educating their children in an effort to insure they have the same advantages as their American peers.
