Comment Class Cost inflation (Score 1) 157
If Exxon inflated the price of gasoline as do universities with semester hours, Congresskritters would have to hold one leg up on a table to keep the sudden rush of urinary incontinence from filling both shoes. But every year, the class fill up with more and more dewy eyed students that mortgaged their soul for a $5,000 3 hour class in underwater basket weaving.
The basic college courses have had their syllabus and teaching plans done for years. Just many different ways can 3x^2 + 12 = 60 be solved? Just how many times does George Washington cross the Delaware River on Christmas Eve? Standardize the basics, put it online, and have universities teach students how to think/reason about the difficult stuff. And cut out student loans for majors that don't have a market for the degreed graduates to keep from having thousands of Starbucks baristas with a student loan debt the size of some Third World countries.