Weekend Reading

Don't miss this terrific guest post on the Washington Post's College Inc. blog from David E. Drew, chair of the School of Educational Studies at the Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, CA. Yeah, yeah, it's yet another discourse on the value of a college education -- but this take on the subject goes long and wide, looking at the lionizing of dropouts, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) majors, and student debt.  And while we're on the subject of STEM majors, in this article from the NY Times Economix blog, Anthony Carnevale, Director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, posits that what you study is as important as whether you go to college.