Posted on 04/14/2017 4:28:12 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
Some advocates of rural America have suggested that improved technology and telecommuting will allow more highly educated Americans to live and work in rural areas. Marre says the report doesn't have data on the extent, if any, to which that's happening.
Marre says he doesn't have published material on regional differences in educational attainment. But he provides Census Bureau information for the Midwest — a 12-state area that includes North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota — that shows:
• Rural Midwest residents are, on balance, better educated than rural residents nationwide. For example, 88.7 percent of rural Midwest residents have at least a high school degree, compared with 87 percent of rural residents nationwide.
• Reflecting the national trend, Midwest rural residents are as well educated overall as Midwest urban residents.
(Excerpt) Read more at agweek.com ...
I am for a good education but a certificate or College Degree means very little in today’s world. It would surprise the average American how many of these degrees and certificates are phony.
Pretty much any degree ending with the word “studies” is useless. However, degrees in the hard sciences, math, engineering, and medicine are pretty darn valuable. Everyone of my former graduate students started their careers with six figured salaries. My next to last student started at $160,000 as a principal scientist for Bayer. A classmate of mine sold his vet practice 3 months ago for 26 million. So, there is value in the right fields. We often refer to the rest of the fields as liberal-farts.
So be It! Made my day. We have more Doctors in Education than we do the Medical Field. Think about it and enjoy.
They certainly won't come from the brick & mortar universities or the public schools.
Gotta love an article on educational attainment that provides a definition for the word “median”.
You are referring to doctors in liberal arts, right? I’ve spent most of my career at a vet school teaching and training veterinarians. Our teaching hospitals function like a regular clinic, but with specialists in every field and it is profit motivated. It is very rare for an equine case to come to the clinic without a bare minimum charge of a $1000 and some often accrue service bills exceeding 10x that.
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