Fixing Higher Ed

Source: New York Times Posted By: brad S...5428 days ago

Using high-pressure sales tactics to encourage students not to skip classes or drop out, as Harold O. Levy proposes, will be useless unless parents become more engaged with their children and the curriculum becomes relevant to the 21st century. The schools, and also social services, need to become involved in exactly why students are not attending.

Similarly, mandating that students stay in school until they are 19 will be a boon only to the education industry. It would be better, and more economical,....

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