Stealing our Kids Future

Brian Tamanaha: A Snapshot of Law Student Debt that Every 1L (and Law Professor) Should See

Average law school debt in 2010 was $68,827 for graduates from public schools and $106,249 from private schools. That is in addition to whatever undergraduate debt they might have accumulated. Remember, these are averages: many law students have debt in excess of $200,000.

Lawyers I don't worry too much about, but how are teachers, accountants, and others going to pay off their college debt? Student loan debt is a ticking bomb.

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Cutting Eduction Spending

Off the Charts Blog | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities | Blog Archive | Five Things You Might Not Know About Public Employees

1. Education is by far the largest category of state and local government employment. Nearly 7 million teachers, aides, and support staff work in the nation’s public elementary and secondary schools, more than twice as many as in the next largest job category (protective services, which includes police officers, fire fighters, and correctional officers).

I don't understand. The same people that want to attack big government deficit-spending because it "steals from our future" also want to attack spending on education. However, educating our children gives them the tools they'll need to compete in the future global economy. It is really giving to our future. So, they want to "not give" to our future so we don't "steal from" our future?

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The State of Young College Grads - Mandel on Innovation and Growth

Did something change in the 2000-2003 period? College costs started increasing at an even greater rate while wages stagnated? What changed? Also, public school rates have been increasing much faster private schools? State budget cutbacks maybe?

The State of Young College Grads - Mandel on Innovation and Growth

UPDATE:

Here's Peter Orszag's view. The states are spending the money on Medicare costs rather then higher eduction.

A Health Care Plan for Colleges

RSA Animate

I'd like to see more stuff like this in the schools.



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