Michael Hicks will keep warning us about our educational failures, and I'll keep tooting about it, I guess.
"Almost all the internal migration of people within the U.S. is from places with low levels of educational attainment to places with high levels...These four facts spell doom for most of Indiana. But there’s at least one more dimension to the problem: Many Hoosier cities host colleges and universities that are at significant risk."
Michael Hicks beating the drum again. Indiana's lack of education is destroying the economy.
"For the first time in history, Indiana has entered what will be a long period of declining educational attainment. The real funding cuts to state universities are now more than 15 years old and have left us with a 10-year cohort of declining attendance and graduation."
Either we support education, or we watch the state implode.
Indiana high school graduates may not be able to apply to Purdue
"Neither the GPS or GPS Plus diplomas would meet the university’s admission requirements in math, science, social studies, or world languages.
Both GPS diplomas prescribe 20 credits across subjects that students must earn in ninth and 10th grade...In subjects such as math, science, and social studies, students need to earn fewer credits"
#HigherEducation #Purdue
Here’s what Indiana universities think of the new high school diploma requirements
Why Don’t We Learn from Economic Development Failures?
Michael Hicks is screaming it from his rooftop: higher education is the key to economic gains. Too bad no one pays any attention to him.
"To put it as plainly as possible: Educational attainment alone is now a more powerful predictor of a region’s economic success than everything else combined...The Midwest has lagged behind the nation in growth for four decades"
Education After High School Is the Path to Middle-Class Life
"For young people, I think the evidence points heavily towards continuing education after high school. I recognize there are loud voices in the state saying “you don’t need to go to college.” I think these voices are terribly misinformed, or they have the interests of someone other than the student in mind."