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$10G degree deal:
Governors push state schools
to offer bachelor´s bargain
FOX News, by Joshua Rhett Miller
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Posted By:smcchk, 2/6/2013 9:02:13 PM
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| The $10,000 bachelor´s degree could be coming to a campus near you. What began as a challenge from billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates to make college more affordable is now catching on with governors eager to stem spiraling tuition costs and mounting student debt.[Snip] The bargain baccalaureate could prove popular with students and parents, frustrated with ever-mounting tuition costs that can´t guarantee jobs for graduates. Nationally, student loan debt tops $1 trillion and the price of going to college has risen 440 percent in the last 25 years, according to Sallie Mae.
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Comments:
Time to shake up the precious world of academia!
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Keekng, 2/6/2013 9:12:08 PM (No. 9162674)
Will this end up being one of those.....
You get what you pay for?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Lala, 2/6/2013 9:17:53 PM (No. 9162680)
Well, students sure as heck aren´t getting what they pay for now. $40,000 in debt after 4 years of partying and liberal indoctrination. I don´t know why everyone thinks a degree is mandatory.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Keekng, 2/6/2013 9:21:57 PM (No. 9162685)
Correct, #2, an education would be better, much better, than a degree.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jntsrgn, 2/6/2013 9:51:27 PM (No. 9162710)
They have already cheapened the bachelor´s degree by giving them to virtually everyone.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
realrep, 2/6/2013 10:30:35 PM (No. 9162766)
The world has lots of over-educated idiots.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Ouachita, 2/6/2013 11:01:03 PM (No. 9162797)
You can´t do this in every high school, but there are a number of high schools in the country already doing this:
At the end of the sophomore year, the students with high grades takes a test and if they pass, they are then able to enroll in a junior college and take freshman college courses during the summers. Returning to high school during the regular school year, they take duel credit courses. These are the same courses as advanced placement, but with a heavier work load. Graduating from high school, they have courses that will transfer to the majority of colleges in the United States.
My son graduated in 2000 with 18 hrs of duel credit, 17 hrs. of which transferred to a 4 year college. Earlier, another student graduated with 34 hrs., making her a sophomore in college.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
berthabutt, 2/6/2013 11:36:35 PM (No. 9162822)
Colleges aren´t interested in providing a solid education or even in graduating students with bankable degrees; its only for generating money thru repetitive courses and wishy washy crap. Daughter has spent 10 yrs working part time for her BS and has had to take Anatomy 4 times. Thank God she´s married and we´re no longer paying her loans.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Bevan, 2/7/2013 9:16:57 AM (No. 9163302)
Elbow patches are expensive!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mickturn, 2/7/2013 4:51:25 PM (No. 9164372)
A bargain at 1/10th the price...so what will this degree get you in terms of jobs.
At the job interview:
What is your education background?
Well I graduated with the special bachelor´s degree.
What did you learn.
Nothing, I mean nothing interesting.
Do you have any experience doing (put job responsibilities here)?
No, I don´t....
NEXT!!!!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
msjena, 2/7/2013 4:53:41 PM (No. 9164380)
You know what would bring down college costs? The end of the student loan program. Let the market decide what a degree is worth. Some schools would be charging less that $10,000.
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There was growing buzz over the weekend that a bipartisan agreement on gun control — a deal that would expand background checks — could hit the floor as early as this week. However, any deal could be derailed by the looming threat of a Republican filibuster involving Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. With Cruz standing proudly in the way of any gun legislation, Democrats are trying to make him pay a political price — and even a couple of high-profile Republicans are questioning his tactics.
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Amid all of the very real threats of war and stuff from North Korea, you´d think American intelligence officers want as much video footage of the enemy as possible. Well, here is one video featuring North Korean exercises and Kim Jong-Un holding a gun, and we´ll say this: they certainly get points for presentation. Remember the clap-happy report from Dennis Rodman´s diplomatic basketball vacation? This video comes courtesy of the same Youtube channel that gave us that Rodman video. It appears to be the same state news channel.(Snip for video)This latest dispatch from North Korea´s state television
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