That's all the famous star Felicity Huffman is spending in jail for bribing and cheating to get her child into college.
She was sentenced this month. We can skeptical say that parents have always bought college for their kids, but the bigger story is the credibility of higher education amidst the breakdown of higher education in meeting the needs of this century. Higher ed is a huge failure.
-Only 55%, or half, of students, are graduated. So we waste half of what is spent on college.
-The U.S. only has 28% of its people with a college education, far from the 50% target other advanced countries are setting, and achieving.
-We have left 17 million smart males without a degree, and without a future. Males who test at, or above, what college students test at.
-We haven't filled our STEM jobs with Americans in decades; business desperately needs more college grads with unemployment at rock bottom 2%.
For a start.
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