Blogs

I read through my blog "Take Education as the key link!" in this they were talking about bringing college education back into the picture and what there thought on were for that

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I read "Mysteries of the Ipod" through my blog. This blog was talking about how older people didnt want to make the switch to the ipod becuase of the all the Cds that they owned. I think if you have all the Cds, just download them to the ipod this way you wont have to pay 2 times for the same song if you already have it on cd. _

I read "Pay No Attention to the Memo Behind the Curtain!" This blog talked about abortion and how the constitution does not support the right to an abortion. This topic raises a lot of questions about whether it is right or not and people can argue both sides of it. This is a very sensitive topic and is taken very seriously. _

=2nd Quarter= - I read Education and Equal Opportunity. This blog was talking about ... that where children of immigrant parents had, for much of the last century, easily surpassed the earnings of their fathers and mothers, they now more often stick at the same level. I do not agree with this because i think that if someone tries at something then they can achieve what they want. This statement is very negative. Who says that if you are at one level from your parents that you cant get past it. Maybe some will go below this level but then there not trying. If they do try you can do anything and get any where in life, so i do not like this post because i find it very offensive.

-I read The Future of Education This blog talked about the relationship with face to face teaching. They said that teaching face to face is better because you get a bond and you are able to communicate. With this it is easier to talk to the teacher and carry a conversation instead of seeing the computer and trying to figure out what is going on; on thier own, with no one there to tell them if you are doing it wrong. "These innovations hold out the tantalizing possibility of beating the cost disease while meeting the world's demand for higher education...."

-I read Robert Waldmann on Education and Growth This blog talked about that the expanding of schools would be socially beneficial. This is an excerpt from the blogs. "The first states to have high enrollment in high school (midwest in the 19th century) went on to become relatively much richer than they had been (kids in New England were lured off to the then high tech textile mills and New England suffered relative economic decline until the mills went South, kids studied and they got going on the new high tech (the Reagan defense buildup helped a lot too))." This talks about that the more children that are enrolled in the schools the more richer they became. This is true in a way but to have a lot of kids enrolled in a school you need to have the right neccessitys for the school, certain student teacher ratios that will match. Having more students in the school might not always make the school richer.

I read Greg Anrig on Education Reform This blog talks about what has been going on in the schools with different approachs for schools. Like the magnet schools, and having schools that are an off link and are for certain kids that need to be in specific school. "The past thirty years have been a period of enormous innovation in American education.... In addition to charter schools, all kinds of strategies have taken root: public school choice, new approaches to standards and accountability, magnet schools, and open enrollment plans that allow low-income city kids to attend suburban public schools and participate in various curriculum-based experiments."

I read John McCain Doesn't Have an Education Policy or an Inequality Policy__ This blog was talking about what John McCain has and hasn't done in order of the education policy. "speaking on behalf of John McCain, said that the inability of the number of people graduating from college to keep pace with the growth in the skills premium for college graduates is the sole cause of growing inequality" This is talking about more and more people graduating from college are below the line of skills that are needed to be a successful person in life and in society. " As president, Mr. McCain would take a bully pulpit approach to student aid, aides say. Rather than propose any new federal money, he would jawbone and publicly try to coax colleges to slow their rate of tuition increases using the federal tax exemptions they receive as leverage…."

I read Diffusion and Technology-Education Complementarity This blog was about "The San Francisco Fed's Mark Doms discusses his work with Ethan Lewis on the adoption of technology, in this case the use of personal computers. An interesting result is that higher average educational attainment for a region results in more intensive adoption of personal computers and faster growth in wages:" "The authors calculate computer-intensity measures that account for industry composition and still find very large and persistent differences across metropolitan areas in their computer usage in 1990 and again in 2002."


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