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se that one person at a time so noble these community college students seriously i think getting a college degree is great and all that but lets not get carried away sheesh also brooks seems to want to tie the stragnation of income growth to the stagnation of growth in those who complete college this is a favorite idea of conservative economists that its largely a matter of training that is responsible for income inequality this idea has been thoroughly refuted by krugman in his book the return of depression economics community college enrollment has been increasing at more than three times the rate of four year colleges this year in the middle of the recession many schools are seeing enrollment surges of 10 percent to 15 percent and the investment seems to pay off according to one study students who earn a certificate experience a 15 percent increase in earnings students earning an associate degree registered an 11 percent gain compared to what ugh this is the kind of shit that drives me mad also how does it compare to those who earn college degrees and yet funding lags most people in government think tanks and the news media didn t go to community college and they don t send their children to them it s a blind spot in their consciousness as a result four year colleges receive three times as much federal money per student as community colleges according to a brookings institution report federal spending for community colleges fell six percent between 2002 and 2005 while spending on four year colleges increased erm pointing to the totals spent at the various institutions seems like the wrong way to approach this we should be looking at the percentage of the total costs per student that the federal dollars are paying for community college is much much cheaper than going to a four year university i m not saying i know for sure there isn t a problem here but i am saying that david brooks s evidence is misleading which is why what president obama announced this week is so important he announced a 12 billion plan to produce 5 million more community college grads by 2020 if the plan were just 12 billion for buildings and student aid it wouldn t be worth getting excited about the money devoted to new construction amounts to about 2 million per campus with new facilities costing in the tens of millions that s not a big deal nor is increased student aid fundamentally important i ve had this discussion with my liberal friends a thousand times and i have come to accept that they will never wrap their minds around the truth lack of student aid is not the major reason students drop out of college they drop out because they are academically unprepared or emotionally disengaged or because they lack self discipline or because bad things are happening at home evidence please he said she said it s my column so i am right and if students are unprepared isn t that a problem for high schools not community colleges affordability is way down the list you can increase student aid a ton and you still won t have a huge effect on college completion what s important about the obama initiative is that it doesn t throw money at the problem it ties money to reform and has the potential the potential to spur a wave of innovation people who work at community colleges deserve all the love we can give them since they get so little prestige day to day but the fact is many community colleges do a poor job of getting students through about half drop out before getting a degree most schools have poor accountability systems and inadequately track student outcomes they have little information about what works they have trouble engaging students on campus many remedial classes 60 percent of students need them are a joke often because expectations are too low again should it be the community college s job to deal with remedial students isn t this a problem that has earlier roots i mean 60 need remedial work that s a systemic problem but it s origin is not in the community college the obama initiative is designed to go right at these deeper problems it sets up a significant innovation fund which if administered properly could set in motion a spiral of change it has specific provisions for remedial education outcome tracking and online education it links public sector training with specific private sector employers yes if you pay for innovation you will get innovation it s a can t fail real reform takes advantage of community colleges most elemental feature these colleges educate students with wildly divergent interests goals and abilities they host students with radically different learning styles many of whom have floundered in traditional classrooms therefore successful reform has to blow up the standard model you can t measure progress by how many hours a student spends with her butt in a classroom chair you have to incorporate online tutoring as the military does you have to experiment with programs like digital bridge academy that are tailored to individual learning styles you have to track student outcomes as the lumina foundation is doing you have to build in accountability measures for teachers and administrators maybe this proposal too will be captured by the interest groups but its key architects rahm emanuel in the white house and representative george miller have created a program that is intelligently designed and boldly presented maybe it will be captured by interest groups how is this not a throw away line what the fuck interest groups is he talking about this is just red meat interest groups always ruin everything reader nods in agreement what the fuck it s a reminder that the obama administration can produce hope and change when the white house is the engine of policy creation and not the caboose i guess this is a shot or something at the obama administration but it s not clear what for health care who the hell knows whatever the deal is i m all for more focus on community colleges and higher education seeing as i plan on working in higher education at some point but i m not sure the benefits of such an increased focus are those that brooks points to posted by david jacobs at 3 43 pm no comments monopolies this is ridiculous oligopolistic behavior and should absolutely not be allowed posted by david jacobs at 3 19 pm no comments thursday july 16 2009 roger cohen whenever i see a headline that reads roger cohen the meaning of life i cannot help but shudder posted by david jacobs at 4 39 pm no comments tuesday july 14 2009 today s wtf moment comes from david brook s column her father died when she was 9 leaving one such gap it is amazing how many people who suffer parental loss between the ages of 9 and 13 go on to become astounding high achievers the only reason he thinks this is amazing is his prejudiced belief that only persons from intact nuclear families can succeed also this is another example of how books makes assertions without backing them up with any empirical evidence we don t care what your individual experience tells you there are facts to be had about this kind of thing posted by david jacobs at 2 30 am no comments monday july 13 2009 social insurance it has often occurred to me that the combination of social insurance and business is fundamentally distasteful the purpose of buying a social insurance policy especially in the form of health insurance is to protect oneself from risk risk of natural disasters risk of theft risk of early death or risk of catastrophic health problems a business on the other hand is largely concerned with extracting the largest amount of profit from its customers as possible because its fiduciary duty is to increase the value of the company for its shareholders or just regular owners depending on what the structure of the business is an insurance company takes advantage of the uncertainty inherent in our lives in order to make money now this is not necessarily a bad thing you could argue that non lethal self defense weapon makers do the same thing where they differ is that the business model of a successful insurer consists in doing everything they can to deny your insurance claims in order to extract as much profit as possible they must limit their outlays and the best way to do that is through careful pre screening or denial of insurance claims insurances companies make money by denying you the peace of mind you thought you d purchased i think it is this fact that explains why people hate their insurance companies they know the insurance companies answer to two different masters on the one hand they are there to protect you on the other hand they exist to make their shareholders money which they can only do by denying high risk persons insurance the profit motive harmfully interferes with the insurance company doing its best by the customer it would be one thing if the interests of the two sides were equally balanced but there s no reason to think that they are the people who run insurance companies their ceos get their jobs because they are good at making money not because they are good at offering great coverage for customers they have to do that in so far as they don t want to go out of business but with the monopolistic stranglehold that most companies have in various regions they can afford to pay more attention to their bottom lines that s why the insurance companies are so terrified of a public option for health care i won t pretend to know the numbers on comparative performance between government administered and private health insure but the public option has at least two enormous conceptual benefits no profit motive and increased competition the government is not trying to make money from providing health insurance the government does not serve two masters the insured and their shareholders while a public plan must make sure it stays solvent it isn t concerned with making money for its shareholders its sole mission is to provide health insurance to those it insures i said that increased competition is a conceptual benefit but really it might as well be empirically confirmed vast swathes of the country are covered by one or two insurers leading to a typically monopolistic situation providing a public plan which can compete on cost because it isn t trying to make money will force insurance companies to amend their practices this will lead to more of the money paid into the companies being disbursed to those it insures one can see why the insurance companies are terrified their long reign of extracting profit due to their insecurities of their customers would be directly challenged the moral of the story is that the government is the correct vehicle for social insurance we can talk about what kinds of things people absolutely need to be protected from but it seems prima facie clear to me that the ravages of disease is one of those things posted by david jacobs at 12 14 am no comments sunday july 12 2009 barbara ehrenreich the second in her continuing series on how the recession is impacting those who have always been on the margins of prosperity people forget how tenuous ones financial stability can be and many do not have any margin for error recessions strike these kinds of folks the hardest and there is very little in the way of support for them outside their own familial and communal networks posted by david jacobs at 8 30 pm no comments your new york times ombudsman hard at work in the times of the decline of newspapers assuring the readership that the wedding announcements in the times have ceased to be a venue merely for the fabulously wealthy posted by david jacobs at 8 16 pm no comments saturday july 11 2009 what i m reading believe blindly everything they tell you at the ecclesiastical academy bear in mind that there are people who will make a careful note of your slightest objection they will forgive you a little amorous intrigue if it is done in the proper way but not a doubt the charterhouse of parma posted by david jacobs at 1 10 am no comments friday july 10 2009 wherein i post a link to something i did not need to know ew posted by david jacobs at 6 56 pm no comments thursday july 9 2009 innocence is a kind of insanity here posted by david jacobs at 5 32 pm no comments wednesday july 8 2009 zizek he might be a crazy man and a self promoter and i still don t understand his synthesis of lacanian psychoanalysis with hegelian marxism but i think he is in some ways a great aphorist in the manner of montaigne and nietzsche who probably would not appreciate the comparison how does one combine hegelianism and pithy aphorisms in the same person what curious dialetical process of sublation could overcome the gap between these antipodes truly a mystery what does it mean to be a revolutionary today update he actually froths a little at the mouth at the end posted by david jacobs at 1 50 am no comments tuesday july 7 2009 what i m reading these are the questions that had been going through tereza s head since she was a child indeed the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate only the most naive questions are truly serious they are the questions with no answers a question with no answers is a barrier that cannot be breached in other words it is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities describes the boundaries of human existence the unbearable lightness of being posted by david jacobs at 12 17 am no comments monday july 6 2009 more re douthat s odd sympathy for sarah palin from the edge of the american west posted by david jacobs at 9 10 pm no comments ross douthat is an idiot regard all of this had something to do with ordinary partisan politics but it had everything to do with palin s gender and her social class sarah palin is beloved by millions because her rise suggested however temporarily that the old american aphorism about how anyone can grow up to be president might actually be true but her unhappy sojourn on the national stage has had a different moral don t even think about it uh what about our boy barack hussein obama you know the guy who actually won the guy with an immigrant father and a working class mother you know just maybe i think douthat s sympathy with palin has something to do with the fact that his columns have been almost universally panned as inane and incoherent which of these characteristics do you think he and she share suck it douthat posted by david jacobs at 7 15 pm no comments tuesday june 30 2009 metaphysics i finished reading this book without my head exploding in related news the ultimate chapter is a supposed refutation of so called anti realism leading aside the fact that one of the main figures loux targets in this chapter is hilary putnam who is not an anti realist in any sense except in being an anti metaphysical realist he doesn t deal with any arguments older than 1981 realists are so useless posted by david jacobs at 12 35 am no comments thursday june 25 2009 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