Posted on 08/09/2010 5:20:49 AM PDT by reaganaut1
President Obama on Monday will renew his call for the United States to lead the world in college graduation rates by 2020, an ambitious goal that senior administration officials say will require 60 percent of all young Americans to possess a college degree, up from 40 percent today.
The United States gave up its spot as the world leader in college graduation rates about 10 years ago, as students in countries like South Korea, Canada and Russia began to surpass their American counterparts. Now the United States ranks 12th among 36 developed nations; a report by the College Board last month warned that the gap threatens to undermine American competitiveness.
Mr. Obama, who shares that view, used his State of the Union address in January to call for the United States to resume its spot as the world leader in graduation rates. He will travel to Austin, Texas, on Monday to reiterate his education plan in a speech at the University of Texas there.
“We’re flatlined, where other countries have passed us by,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Sunday, during a conference call with reporters to preview the president’s remarks. Mr. Duncan called the 2010 goal “the North Star for all our educational efforts.”
Mr. Obama’s trip to Texas will pair policy with politics; before delivering his education speech, he will headline a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee in Austin. After the speech, he will make a quick trip to Dallas to raise money for Democratic Senate candidates.
And the speech itself will have a political edge; advisers to Mr. Obama say he will use it to remind Americans that, with just a few exceptions, Republicans voted overwhelmingly against legislation adopted by Congress earlier this year to revamp the student loan program
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On the individual level, getting a college degree may or may not be worthwhile for some marginal students, because the job market is so credentialized. Many FR threads have debated who should attend college. But at a national level, sending everyone to college will NOT magically create lots of good new jobs unless it substantially improves the knowledge and skills of the workforce.
Better to stand in the unemployment line with sheepskin in hand, than without. /s
And they all can get a job in government after the private sector is no more.
I sense a lowering of standards on the horizon.
Why not improve the literacy rates, then high school graduation rates first?
Even if that could happen, there won’t be any jobs for them with Obamas policies. We’ll just have the worlds smartest unemployed people.
If zero and his minions could get 60% of the los negroes to graduate from high school it would be a near miracle! That’s the first hill that the boy needs to climb....
Years ago I made the comment that not everyone is suited for college. I happened to make it at a wedding or baby shower amongst a bunch of leftists (divorced/single middle aged women) and you should have seen the looks and heard the gasps of disbelief. BLASPHEMY!
only happens when the immigrants are legal and high functioning, and the children of the low end of the normal curve are kept as a small portion of the populations
Our Elite do not see this as being in their interests.
He truly is trying to destroy America and or he is an idiot.
He just gets a thought.... i e.... everyone should wear gold watches go to college and so on...
How about JOBS TO HELP PAY MORTGAGES?
NOT the green weenie jobs reserved for your buds real jobs!
NEXT he will say everyone has to change all of their lightbulbs to energy efficient ones WAIT HE DID THAT!
Hand out the diploomas with the cheese. Honkey crackers need not apply.
Obama..."You don't want health insurance? Too bad, we REQUIRE you to buy it. Don't want a college degree? Too bad, we REQUIRE you go get one."
1- Change the curricula to prepare the students for productive work and quit catering to the lowest common denominator.
2- Reintroduce the concept of discipline and consequences, to ensure a learning atmosphere in the classroom.
3- Allow school choice so the market place can identify where these concepts have been effectively implemented.
4- Tell the Teacher’s Unions to shut up and make these changes with the money they have. The consequences include firing the least qualified teachers.
Oh, great idea - then even McDonalds will require a collage degree to flip burgers!
As is, there are far too many people going to college. Perhaps it would be worthwhile for more to go if college taught them anything. But those coming out with a bachelor’s degree who can’t write or perform simple math should be driving truck or picking up garbage.
And don’t forget - those people will also be set on a path to be your Obamacare doctors, and “educated” at your expense. It’s a win/win!
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The only reason Progressive Fascists want everyone to go to college is they need more time to try and brain wash the kids to believe their ridiculous Progressive political dogmas
Just hand them out with food stamps and be done with it.
The statistics show that the more “educated” someone is, ie, the more time they spend in an academic environment with “professors”, the more likely they are to abandon their religious faith.
Statists need people who worship only the state.
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