Education Reform: College Value

Here at Tako, we keep our eye on modern education issues and The Imperiled Promise of College is near the top of the list. 


Excerpts from the article:

-"FOR a long time and for a lot of us, “college” was more or less a synonym for success...A diploma wasn’t a piece of paper. It was an amulet."

-"Because of levitating costs, college these days is a luxury item. What’s more, it’s a luxury item with newly uncertain returns."

-"A wider world of competition now confronts college graduates."

-"That you can’t gain a competitive edge with just any diploma from just any college is reflected in the ferociousness of the race to get into elite universities. It’s madness out there. Tiger mothers and $125-an-hour tutors proliferate, and parents scrimp and struggle to pay up to $40,000 a year in tuition to private secondary schools "

This is why so many people are getting so much attention for their efforts to fix thy system.