Teaching college is no longer a middle-class job, and everyone should care
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Re: Teaching college is no longer a middle-class job, and everyone should care
#2These basal, fundamental flaws in the educational system give me pause to awe, and a gut feeling the US is gonna get trampled many times over by the likes of China within some decades. So little regulation and such harsh capitalism is eating its heart out bit by bit. I guess what keeps America bright at this point is a legacy from the past century, that's slowly eroding, and the brain drain sucked chiefly out of Asia and Eastern Europe--at least the same hands-off market attracts those people with today a stronger educational background than the average educated American, but how sustainable is it to keep importing talent? Is the power of capital enough to keep the american infrastructure and investment momentum on american grounds indefinitely?
Re: Teaching college is no longer a middle-class job, and everyone should care
#3The education meat grinder destroys adjuncts, it saddles many students with crushing, non-self-liquidating debt and it outpaces inflation faster than any other major cost category:
http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/streams/2013/April/130430/6C71...
A bad product, the employees and customers are treated poorly, and prices are skyrocketing. Hmmm.
Re: Teaching college is no longer a middle-class job, and everyone should care
#4So the cost of college is skyrocketing and teachers are getting paid less and less. Where is the money going??
Re: Teaching college is no longer a middle-class job, and everyone should care
#5Teachers would probably have bigger problems.
According to clay christensen , the guy behind "the innovator's dillema" , more than 50% of colleges will go bankrupt soon(until 2020/2024).
Re: Teaching college is no longer a middle-class job, and everyone should care
#6So the cost of college is skyrocketing and teachers are getting paid less and less. Where is the money going??
Research, Sports, executive salaries. There are a lot of costs besides teacher's salaries.
Re: Teaching college is no longer a middle-class job, and everyone should care
#7I was once offered an adjunct position to teach a class at my alma mater. They were excited to let me know I'd be paid $3,000 for teaching the class.
I had to turn them down, as I was already doing private corporate trainings, where we charged $3,000/day.
I didn't get paid that much, obviously, but I thought it was really amusing that the amounts lined up.