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Education: Who needs it? Not Americans.
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Not to mention that teachers are required to complete a set amount of CPE by law, and in many places are expected to acquire their M.Ed. within a certain timeframe as well.
Only if Paul is paying under cost. In other words, if you can charge Peter Cost+50, and Paul only Cost+1, and the alternative is to not get Paul's money at all, it makes more sense to have two prices instead of taking only the people who can pay Cost+50, or having a universal price of Cost+25.
You're advocating surplus capture by the university - if the university can charge Peter Cost + 50, it can also charge Peter Cost +51, +52, +53 etc. until it captures almost all the benefit of going to university. Unbridled price discrimination does not lead anywhere nice.
In both cases it charges more than Cost (by definition), so the law of one price and competition would dictate charging both Cost + 1, and both Peter and Paul get to go to college. And this should ideally be the legislative outcome under market failure as well.
It can charge Peter up to the point where Peter goes "wow, this is too expensive, I'll just got to 'not quite as good school B'". There is an upper ceiling set by the market.
Furthermore, schools need surplus money to invest in new buildings, faculties, etc if they are going to keep up with the competition. So setting tuition at barely above cost would not be a viable long term strategy.
Also, the cost is largely not fixed. If you already have a class of 20 people, adding person 21 comes at little to no cost to you, so if you charge him for only that additional charge, they're tuition would be dramatically lower.
The combination of all these factors is that you can admit students at many different levels of tuition without losing money on any of them.
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That is unless you regard Geography as maps and History as chaps.
You can't discuss things like the American Civil War without getting into the settlements and states and when they were founded and such. Why not teach them concurrently?
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Geography is the study of how the world works, Coastal Geography, Volcanology, Glaciology, Environmental Geography and so on.
Locations of battles, settlements, etc is part of History, no?
edit: I also recognise that there are many human aspects to Geography too-of course, Historical Geography is a good example, but that's only one aspect of 'Human' Geography, out of many.
geography I thought was more the study of maps and artificial distinctions, like borders and stuff
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Rock types and erosion and mountain forming and all that is Earth Science or something like that depending on where you are. Usually covered in jr high.
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As a demonstration that this isn't restricted to the UK, consider the name of the National Geographic Society. Earth science is a field that is in some respects broader, but arguably ignores the human side of things.
Further, the comments here make me wonder just where human geography is studied.
*if a tenuous one – geography, to a certain degree, implies history.
There's a reason more of our generation can find Kuwait on a map than can name a half dozen former soviet satellites.
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See climatology and geology were separate classes at my highschool, both advanced classes in the earth science department (along with astronomy and oceanography, but those are less relevant to the discussion at hand). Geography was a relatively small subsection of social studies where we learned what constitutes an archipelago or an isthmus and locations of different countries.
Africa seems to have disappeared.
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In the introductory class session, these peers failed (at a better than 50% rate) to locate Iraq on an unlabeled map of the middle east.
College - and not even just freshmen, either.
It's more a crapshoot. If you live somewhere wealthy you're probably in good shape (or you're wealthy enough to send the childrens to private school.) There are REALLY good public schools (especially if it's a rich white suburb... like, um, mine) and REALLY bad public schools.
And assuming you can afford it/the kids are willing to take loans, the college system here is still the world's best by a pretty large margin.
Where?
Not really.
Unfortunately, most Americans like and admire rich people, and a large number imagine, however irrationally, that they will get rich before they die. D:
That's something I always admired about Americans.
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Yes really. The US dominates international university rankings.
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If this is your measure. The UK according to the Times Higher Educations latest study has 40% of the top ten places (compared to 60% with the US), and 18% of the top 100 (compared to 36%).
Remind me, what is the difference in population?
This is the case in my state of Nevada, unfortunately, and education is paying the biggest price for our governor's (Jim Gibbons) unwavering commitment to not raise any taxes at all.
The University of Nevada here in Reno recently closed a college outright (my old college, actually), and has to drop all foreign language majors except for Spanish.
Additionally, the state is looking at either closing a lot of primary schools that are in need of repair, or laying off half the teachers. Similar to what happened recently in Rhode Island. My little sister's middle school is one on the blocks, which understandably has my family really pissed.
Having graduated from a US university, this fills me with terror.
As is the case in all things American, the divide between the elite institutions and your local diploma mill is vast.
Bush went to Yale.
Terror.
So it's just like US Health Care.
It's only "the best" if you don't consider the standard deviation.
America has the best stuff.
AmericaNs can't afford it.
Well, it's way more accessible and isn't essentially luck based like getting sick is. But it could still be made easier thus the concern with skyrocketing costs.
Or to make use of when you're from an oil-rich country.