Why Florida’s Republicans Should Give Pause to Their STEM Surge
Higher education reform is on the table starting next week during the Florida’s legislative session. Like its efforts in last session’s K-12 reform bills, the collective will of the state’s republicans and their corporate financiers will be the only point of view that matters. How much meddling they will do remains to be seen although you can be sure that they will be emphasizing STEM education. Bloomberg columnist and author Virginia Postrel writes about why they should be thinking otherwise:
The higher-education system does have real problems, including rising tuition prices that may not pay off in higher earnings. But those problems won’t be solved by assuming that if American students would just stop studying stupid subjects like philosophy and art history and buckle dow
