It really breaks my heart to see things like that.

Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas, a show on HBO, will focus their second season on education.

A lot of teachers are underpaid. I just wish we’d stop lumping teachers in places like LA, NYC, and Chicago with teachers in, for example, Okalahoma.

I also wish people would stop saying the problem is (with a just implied) we’re not spending enough money. At this point I think a lot of those people just don’t want to admit they need to let poor (and probably minority) kids into their lily white liberal enclave schools.

It's hard to afford good teachers when you have to save up to bribe your kid into a good college.

Or just send kids to private schools where the bottom 25% get in uh... actually, yeah, USC/Brandeis/William&Mary type of schools.

At least the unis aren't in so much trouble in America. A good chunk of UK unis are running into financial strain due to budget cuts and are sinking down the world university rankings as a result. International students are the cash cow that keep unis afloat. If you're a foreign student and have the money, you can basically buy a degree in the UK even if your English is piss-poor. Unis are subcontracting parts of themselves to private corporations that work to recruit more international students and teach them English. Problem is that with privatization comes profit-driven rather than education-driven thoughts which includes pay cuts, layoffs, and low-quality teaching.

It's making the job market less appealing and is driving away a lot of motivated teachers who care while miserable corporate suck-ups play politics to stay employed. A couple of unis are acknowledging their error by not renewing their contracts with these succubi but skimping on costs while increasing foreign enrollment is an appealing package to struggling universities who may see this as a means of survival.

the private university in my city in USA#1 is entirely based on oil money. so it ebbs and flows. the lack of international students coming for petroleum engineering degrees is hitting hard right now. i fully expected them to go straight to the saudi's once some of the other uni's stopped taking saudi money in the wake of the journalists torture and murder. to my knowledge they didnt.

Quote is from who's running against Trump 2020 thread.



Lots of interesting stuff in video. Most interesting is they basically found 1000 new mothers living in poverty and gave them different amount of cash for first 40 months of their children's lives. They are waiting to see if that money made a difference in children's intelligence. (obviously hopefully yes, but unknown so far)

Yeah, I am kind of hoping this thread just turns into the general thread on talking about education.