Still can't understand anyone going to those piece of for-profit schools. $30,000 a year to go to ITT Tech so I can be raped for $200 for a textbook written in India, or $10,000 a year at UTSA (closest equivalent to ITT Tech tbh) so I can be raped for only $150 for my American made textbook.
TX is in about the bottom 3 or 4 states of education spending per student
RickyBobby cut property taxes a few years, resulting in a $5B cut to schools, some has been restored, but the Repug agenda is clear.
TX spends about $20B/year on "tax expenditures" to business.
GFY
The worst I've heard is how many dumbasses paid $30,000 to go to ing Donald Trump University
he's being sued for false advertisingThe worst I've heard is how many dumbasses paid $30,000 to go to ing Donald Trump University
a few years ago, unemployed law grads were suing law schools about the school's ads saying, IIRC, that legal jobs were almost guaranteed.
i dont think anybody in that convo said they'll have a super easy time finding a job... although calling it a degree as you did is pretty moronic
LOL, I remember that lawsuit, where the law schools were counting jobs at Macy's and McDonalds toward their graduate job placement numbers.
LOL, I remember that lawsuit, where the law schools were counting jobs at Macy's and McDonalds toward their graduate job placement numbers.
Me and all the people who work at Target suing California Law Schools
i'm well aware its a saturated and compe ive field. if you go to a better school and/or finish near top of your class, you can make your own luck. JD still has among the highest average salaries of post-grad degrees
FTR, I don't think it's a degree if it's from an elite school. It's just like an MBA these days. People who waste money on a middle tier MBA aren't any less re ed than people who waste money on a middle tier law school.
St. Mary’s College of Maryland joins troubling U.S. trend: Too many empty freshman seats
A growing number of colleges nationwide are scrambling to fill classes, a trend analysts say is driven by a decline in the number of students graduating from high school and widespread concern among families about the price of higher education.
The admissions upheaval at schools ranging from lower-tier colleges to esteemed regional ones, including St. Mary’s College of Maryland, contrasts with the extraordinary demand for the most elite colleges and universities.
Demographics pose a major hurdle for many colleges that market primarily to high school students. The number of new high school graduates peaked in 2011, after 17 years of growth, and is not projected to reach a new high until 2024, according to the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. Analysts and educators expect that a rising share of incoming students will need major financial aid.
The economic recovery is also hurting enrollment because fewer people go to college when jobs are available. According to state data released this week, Maryland colleges have 2.8 percent fewer students this fall, the second straight year of decline and the sharpest annual drop in 30 years.
Nationwide, college enrollment fell about 2 percent this past school year.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/st-marys-college-of-maryland-joins-troubling-trend-too-many-empty-freshman-seats/2013/11/22/2fd1f8c0-489a-11e3-b6f8-3782ff6cb769_print.html
imo i have a solid shot of getting into a tier 1 school, especially coming out of biochem
fyi csun is closer to my house, i commute to school, and didnt think it was worth a 25 mile drive to take a test
Nice tbh, so are you shooting for Stanford?
applying there, but can't be too hopeful. its in #3 in the country
berkley would be cool so i could get season tix to the raiders fest
LOL...
The responses to what I said.
I will assume Algebra II isn't even as good as Algebra I was when I was in school...
i would have been bored as in high school if our math curriculum ended before algebra II
High School would have been infinitely less boring if not for the 4 years of English requirement with English class being the most demanding class every year. The books they make you read aren't even good.
Foreign language teaching is also horrid at the high school level. Memorizing vocab words does nothing to help learn the language, they'd be better off just buying every student Rosetta Stone.
^this. to me, chemistry physics and math is what kept HS interesting. the other classes were boring and bull .
Chemistry would be even better if not for lazy teachers imo. Making students memorize the periodic table does nothing other than give the teacher material to test on without having to teach anything. The "honors" chemistry class I had in high school had an extra credit project that involved sewing a stuffed animal. It was all busy work.
American History is maybe the biggest joke of what's taught in high schools. While slavery is significant, it shouldn't be the only ing thing pre civil war American history class teaches, especially since slavery isn't even what started the civil war.
my ap chem teacher was great. was my favorite class i ever took in high school. european history was ok
Almost all science and math in high school is boring as . Here's 50 problems of busywork, every single one the same as the preceding problem. Now get to work class while I sit here and zone out. It should be expected though when you don't actually have to know math, physics, chemistry, etc in any kind of meaningful way to teach it in our high schools. And then the textbooks are even worse.
I agree. I also took drafting, mechanics, and electronic. Math isn't something everyone wants to pursue however.
SBOE and BigCarbon shills get TX into the NYTimes, elevating TX's image a rural backwater and full of Christian supremacists and Bible literalis.
Texas Education Board Flags Biology Textbook Over Evolution Concerns
The Texas Board of Education on Friday delayed final approval of a widely used biology textbook because of concerns raised by one reviewer that it presents evolution as fact rather than theory.
The monthslong textbook review process in Texas has been controversial because a number of people selected this year to evaluate publishers’ submissions do not accept evolution or climate change as scientific truth.
On Friday, the state board, which includes several members who hold creationist views, voted to recommend 14 textbooks in biology and environmental science. But its approval of “Biology,” a highly regarded textbook by Kenneth R. Miller, a biologist at Brown University, and Joseph S. Levine, a science journalist, and published by Pearson Education, was contingent upon an expert panel determining whether any corrections are warranted. Until the panel rules on the alleged errors, Pearson will not be able to market its book as approved by the board to school districts in Texas.
“It’s just a shame that quality textbooks still have to jump through ridiculous hoops that have no basis in science,” said Kathy Miller, president of the Texas Freedom Network, which monitors the activities of far-right organizations.
Ms. Miller (no relation to the Pearson textbook author) said she nevertheless gave Friday’s vote “two opposable thumbs up” because the board “adopted all of the science books and the publishers made no effort to water down evolution or climate science in those books.”
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/11/23...l?from=science
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