"Should Everyone Go To College?"
According to Schneider what kind of institution has the highest return on investment?
Correct answer: According to Schneider public institutions tend to have higher ROIs than private institutions, and more selective schools offer higher RIOs than less selective ones.
What percentage of high school students reported that their guidance counselors encouraged them to go to college?
Who is the author of "Generation Stress:The Mental Health Crisis on Campus"?
Correct Answer:Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Fill in the blank: "Americans in their 20's have always been unlikely to buy homes, but millennials may be delaying well into their ......"
Correct answer: 30's!
"Americans in their 20's have always been unlikely to buy homes, but millennials may be delaying well into their 30's."
True or False: "When we look at lifetime earnings the total premium is $570,000 for an associates degree and $170,000 for a bachelors degree."
FALSE! "When we look at lifetime earnings the total premium is $570,000 for a bachelors degree and $170,000 for an associates degree."
True or False: Memorizing is something that children do much, better than adults.
Correct Answer: True!
True or False: The number of students visiting counseling centers decreased between 2009-2015.
Correct answer: FALSE! It's increased.
Was Spangler able to get a job in law enforcement? If not explain why.
Correct answer:No even though Spangler met all the requirements he was not able to get a job in law enforcement because of his poor credit history due to his student debt!
According to the pay scale data is a bachelors degree always a smart investment?
Correct answer: No! According to the pay scale data a bachelors degree is not always a smart investment. There are many factors that go into consideration:tuition, financial aid, graduation rates, years taken to graduate, wage inflation, and selection.
What is causing the Brick and Mortar college to go absolute?
Correct answer:The internet.
What 3 factors have caused great stress amongst students today?
Correct answer: Safety, economics, and technology.
In 2015, what percentage of student loans were publicly held?
Correct Answer: In 2015 91% of all student loans were publicly held.
What are some of the non monetary benefit examples the author gives about schooling?
Correct answer: Additional schooling improves
Overall well being: Effects things like job satisfaction, health, marriage, parenting, trust, and social interaction.
Social benefits: Effects things like reduced crime rates, and higher political participation.
Correct Answer: "For some jobs, the economic premium for a degree is produced by the actual education that has gone into getting that degree." Although for many other jobs employers care more about the degree a student holds than what the student actually learned. Employers see the bachelors degree as a free screening device for academic ability.
What out break should colleges draw on lessons from?
Correct Answer: The 2014 Ebola outbreak.
1.What is the sheepskin effect?
2.According to the author what are "somes"?
Correct answer:1.Increases in labour market earnings associated with the completion of a diploma/degree (earnings boost come with the diploma).
2. Correct answer: "Somes" are those who have more than a high school degree but less than a college degree. Somes end up looking more like their peers with a high school degree than a college degree, but still hold student debt. ex:Spangler