The Uneducated American
...in the years after World War II, America established a commanding position in higher education. But that was then. The rise of American education was, overwhelmingly, the rise of public education — and for the past 30 years our political scene has been dominated by the view that any and all government spending is a waste of taxpayer dollars. Full Story »
Posted by Oliver Jones - via OneRiot, New York Times (Most Emailed), Opinion Source, New York Times (Opinion), Give Me Something To Read
The place I work outsources software development to a company in India. We do this for two reasons: (1) it costs a little less than stateside employees. (2) the Indian software developers are better educated and better trained than developers we can find here. There are plenty of technical university slots in India, and even more people hoping to get into them.