This year, North Carolina taxpayers will spend approximately:
$5,300 educating one public school student
$10,000 educating one public university student
$25,000 housing one inmate in prison
$92,000 housing one juvenile offender in a Youth Development Center
However, a full four year scholarship to one of our largest 4 year public institutions will cost $60,000.
What role should the University play in tackling these social challenges facing our state? When is it appropriate for the University to step in? These facts have major pipeline implications - how does North Carolina prepare these students for the classroom rather than a jail cell.
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The empirical research demonstrates over and over again that the variables associated with success in K-12 education are beyond control of teachers and schools. If we want to help our young people achieve to their greatest potential, then we must understand the cultural and economic issues as well as the POWER dynamics that we face today.
The UNC as well as all educational systems should provide the resources for both the public and private sectors to empirically identify solutions to economic and social challenges. This requires a mostly a-political agenda that focuses on results.
Preventing high school students from dropping out is a tremendous challenge which can reduce crime and poverty, but is there a tangible solution? What are the reasons most students drop out?
When I was in high school the reason most students dropped out included getting jobs that paid $10+ an hour in bad working conditions, a lack of interest in education and criminal convictions.
We must find a way to instill in students an intrinsic value for education, education isn't just about getting a good paying job, its about developing a mind that is well-rounded and balanced. Perhaps our education systems should be restructured to promote that ideal instead of focusing on quantitative results like test scores. Some indicators really can't be expressed as numbers.
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