On July 7, 2007, I posted Did You Know 2.0, which graphically demonstrated the impact of global competition on today's American children. Below is the latest version of Did You Know, released at the end of 2008.
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The Importance of Education
Monday, March 23, 2009
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The Value of Education: A Bachelor's Degree is Worth Almost $2,000,000
Today's L.A. Times has another article that supports the importance of at least obtaining a high school diploma. The article highlights the fact that high school graduates make 3 times the salary of dropouts. What this article fails to acknowledge is the importance of going beyond high school. The value of a bachelors degree in Texas is $80,950 as compared to $42,271 for a high school diploma and $30,412 for a dropout. That differential equates to almost $2 million over an individual's work life for a degree as compared to a high school diploma and over $2.5 million for a degree as compared to a dropout.
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