For a better future, back to the past in higher education
Lillian Taiz, president of the CFA and a history teacher, believes this decline didn’t just come out of nowhere. There have been a number of tipping points, but term limits for legislators, she believes, has led particularly to "the worst of short-term thinking in a world that demands long-term vision." The result is that we’ve seen a slow erosion of education as the engine of progress and opportunity in California. That idea of upward mobility, however, is deeply rooted in American thought and practice.
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by Pia Lopez, The Sacramento Bee.