Education Strategy
Create a US Meritocracy
based upon Drive, Team, Character, Education for All and not just Academics.
IQ: measures verbal comprehension, perceptional reasoning,
working memory, and processing speed. It is applicable to, at most, top quintile careers.

1. Setting 2 Strategic Goals, a Federalist Approach

2. Community, Parents, and Students Choose and Prioritize Goals

3. Special Intelligence allows Individualized Curriculums

4. Tech-based education leads to US Meritocracy

 
 

Goal 1. Fifty State Laboratories of Education
Justice Louis D. Brandeis Took a Federalist Approach to Education

"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system
that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose,
serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments
without risk to the rest of the country
.” source 

FEDs Must Give Up Control of Education Funds2

Goal 2. Maximize a Student's Special Intelligence,
 that which they do well. i.e. arts, sports, mechanical, verbal-math IQ ...

www.textbooksfree.org/educational%20advice.htm#Historical_Leaders_Education_Observations__

Academically, Kids are Fine

 Big Problem is Dropouts

 

Choosing a Degree of Difficulty   Walter
Success encourages teachers and students.
Education should be directed toward finding a student's special intelligence.
Education can then be designed to maximize this special intelligence.
Forcing average into above average seldom leads to success.
Choosing to Max Max
1 for average IQ students leads to debt and under employment.

"Fifty-two percent of graduates with a terminal bachelor’s degree
are underemployed one year after completing;
10 years after completing, 45 percent are underemployed."

stradaeducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Talent-Disrupted.pdf
Investing In College Education, An Economic View
 

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2.
Community, Parents, and Students Choose and Prioritize Goals

3. Special Intelligence leads to Individualized Curriculums

4. Tech-based education leads to US Meritocracy
 

 
  

1Biggest Mistakes

Not Maximizing Special Intelligence

A Federalist/Capitalist Approach to of Managing Education

Decisions are made at the Lowest Level
with books, software, and acceptable media,
determined by parents/school boards/local business.

FEDs Must Give Up Control of Education Funds

Think using the Brandeis Laboratories of democracy approach to education..


Too Many Academically Average  College Graduates

Average IQ 1960 HS Graduate Average IQ 2010s Bachelor's Only Graduate

Recent Graduate Degree IQs < IQs of 1960s Bachelor's Only Graduates

Majors Count

College Education

Does Not Translate into Market Income

Bachelor's Job Picture Difficult

The Economics of College Investing

Indeed’s 2025 US Jobs & Hiring Trends Report: - Indeed Hiring Lab

 
    

Thanks! author/editor Walter Antoniotti 5/21/24
 

 

 

Federal Laws Have Unintended Consequences2

1962 President John F. Kennedy Executive Order 10988
led to state laws permitting
the unionization of public employees

1969 The Supreme Court,
in 
Tinker v. Des Moines
Independent Community School District
,
ruled that the Constitution forbids local schools from
suspending students who bring political protest inside the schools.

In dissent Justice Black wrote:

In 1975 Goss v. Lopez, the Court ruled
 in the case of a suspended student,
 a hearing was required.

 

Inspired by Storm Before the Calm.

Gresham's Law 1: when money is backed by gold and less valued silver, gold  leave circulation and inflation follows.

Gresham's Law 2: when economic opportunity leaves an area,
more productive workers leave the area
and unemployment follows.

Editor: Investment will do little to enhance the productivity of those left behind.

 
img20 $1.6 trillion by 1/1/24.

Almost half of all loans are for graduate school,
10% to for-profit = 90,000,000,000
810,000,000,000 BA, BS loans

10 percent of college students attended
     for-profit colleges,
     almost 40 percent of all defaults
12-year student loan default rate for
     for-profit colleges was 52 percent

The default rate for borrowers who do not complete their degree is three times the rate for those who did

The schools whose students have the highest amount of debt are 
For Profit ,  university of Phoenix,  Walden University, , Capella University, and  Strayer University.[10]

non-profit
Nova Southeastern, they are all for-profit