{"id":1507,"date":"2012-05-03T23:36:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T04:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2012-05-04T18:30:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T23:30:16","slug":"a-debate-on-the-value-of-a-college-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2012\/05\/03\/a-debate-on-the-value-of-a-college-education\/","title":{"rendered":"A debate on the value of a college education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MBDRrKIMHGo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"460\" height=\"264\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p data-ft=\"{&quot;type&quot;:1}\">One of my former students posted this\u00a0 documentary on the value of a college degree on Facebook. I thought that I would share this many of my friends, students, and colleagues to spark a discussion on whether or not the view of higher education has come to this point in these difficult economic times. In my opinion the documentary <!--more-->makes some valid points concerning the rise in college tuition, text book costs, and the possible future of online education. However there are a number of points in which they actively promoting their own agenda. Just keep that in mind as you watch it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uJ9XITuJeXk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"460\" height=\"264\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my former students posted this\u00a0 documentary on the value of a college degree on Facebook. I thought that I would share this many of my friends, students, and colleagues to spark a discussion on whether or not the view of higher education has come to this point in these difficult economic times. In &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2012\/05\/03\/a-debate-on-the-value-of-a-college-education\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A debate on the value of a college education&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-of-education"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2140,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/2140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}