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Gary North
Written by Gary North on September 25, 2012
The SAT and ACT exams judge college preparedness of American high school seniors. Verbal scores were down this year. Math scores were stagnant. Of those students taking the SAT or ACT exams, only 25% were judged college-ready in 2012. This decline is older than 1972. The peak year was 1963. This is what few people […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on September 17, 2012
Without debate, the Assembly of the State of California has passed a bill making it illegal on a state university campus to say certain negative things about Israeli politics. To say such things is designated as a mark of anti-Semitism, and therefore can get you expelled or fired. Once again, we see the problem of […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on August 28, 2012
A man who took on $100,000 of student debt to attend law school flunked out. He now makes $20,000 a year. He cannot repay his loans. He says he is contemplating suicide or fleeing to Canada. I recommend Canada. You can come back from Canada. Here is his story. I failed out of law school […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on August 8, 2012
Grandparents are in the hole for $36 billion for student loans. Some of these debts are because of their grandchildren. They co-signed the loans. Then the grandkids defaulted. The grandchildren could have gotten their B.A. degrees for under $15,000 by avoiding the standard approaches to college. They could have funded all of it themselves by […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on June 6, 2012
I made the mistake of installing Firefox 13. After it was installed, I was informed that it is not compatible with Evernote Clipper. The update killed Evernote Clipper. It’s gone. For those of you who use Evernote Clipper every day to extract pages and store them in searchable format, Firefox 13 is a disaster. For […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on May 4, 2012
Your teenager, or your child’s teenager, can’t get a job these days. Any job. Employment for teens is down to 25%. Only about 25 percent of 16- to 19-year-olds currently are working, a drop of 10 percentage points from just five years ago, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The percentage of teenagers who […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on December 2, 2011
James Altucher has written a great article on the 10 things he did not learn in college, but should have. I wish 4 million college-bound high school seniors would read it every year. (Over half never graduate.) I have been writing about this for over 30 years. It’s nice to see a few people who […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on November 14, 2011
In the good old days, when I was a teenager, college was the way to job security. But, with each new batch of graduates, the value of a degree in the liberal arts goes down. Graduates compete against each other. The main source of job growth is new businesses: 5 years or newer. These are […]
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