On education: specifically the practice of revving college text books.
Question: What is the difference between a calc or physics course today and 20 years ago?
Answer: The price of the tuition and the text book.
Tuition is a tough issue to address, despite hokey attempts at creating subsidized savings programs that will be mismanaged and pulled out from under us 10 years from now. However the price of text books is out of control, getting worse and pretty easy to fix.
I'd like to see legislation mandating the use of a single rev of a text book for 4-5 years in core subjects such as math, physics and other select courses. This would put about a thousand bucks a year back into the pockets of undergrads. Other subject matters need to freeze editions for at least 2-3 years and make updates available in electronic format between revs.
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The best way to fix Tuition is to do away with Federal Subsidized Stafford loans, grants, etc. This only artificially inflates the market.
The attitude of state legislature, universities, colleges, and professors is to have students mortgage their future for the next 10-20 years.
So the professors will unionize, demand more wages, schools will start/fund unnecesary programs that few students use or attend.
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