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The dominant thought-way: "Everyone should go. Anyone can go."
Push-back:
secondary preparation in the US is inequitous
many students who could benefit from a college education face significant barriers (notably high-stakes tests, costs) (Just this year I had a student come to me with his first SAT scores in hand and say, "Ms. Krause, I don't think I'm going to college.")
more students/families are beginning to question the "standard path" (go directly to a four-year college, go straight through)... witness the expansion of gap year fairs in the US in 2009, the success of Maya Frost's book, The New Global Student (went to its 2nd printing approximately five weeks after going to press)
FIT (which post-secondary institution?)
The dominant thought-way: "Go to the best school you can." (Best is defined primarily by reputation and selectivity; input, not outcome.)
Who helps students begin to navigate this choice (if they feel they have a choice)?
Commercial guide books - Fiske, Barron's, Peterson's, etc.
Search:
Searchable databases (notably, the CollegeBoard's Matchmaker site, which students are familiar with because of SAT signup), US News & World Report rankings, Princeton Review's Counselor-O-Matic, tons more here, including some with more subjective, student-generated content.
Publicly available data: NCES (federal data, all schools), VSAN (select public schools), U-CAN (select private schools)
The dominant thought-way: "Go, no matter what the cost."
Push-back:
Students and families are expected to take on more and more debt. (See "Big Increases in Private Loan Borrowing") More families are starting to question this. I see more upper class families sending students to public post-secondary institutions as a "value play." And first-generation college families wondering if there's anything they can do to make college a realistic goal for their children.
What skills can we teach today that will last beyond the latest technology? What's flowing through the wires is more important than the wires. Alan November: #NECC09
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