Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Can We Prevent An Education Bubble? - Timothy Smith, Forbes

Both Dr. Paredes and Salman Khan offer solutions to the problem we find in higher education – an outdated model that doesn’t always connect students to employers (or give employers what they need) and a system that’s growing in cost, while failing to offer more opportunities to students. While the AP statistic shows the scary number of unemployed or underemployed college students, it doesn’t account for their student loan balances. Ultimately, if we don’t act on these solutions to this growing educational problem, this bubble could create a larger mess than the housing bubble.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterjreilly/2012/08/16/can-we-prevent-an-education-bubble/