Gayle Greene for Diane Ravitch's blog on whether Susie Wiles has
asked legacy American prole moms and dads why they won't send their
sons and daughters to Big .EDU's STEM colleges to earn STEM
credentials to enter the American STEM labor market flooded with
scab workers: <URL:https://dianeravitch.net/2023/12/08/gayle-green-higher-education-and-the-triumph-of-hype-over-experience/>
| The hype was hot air. "If a shortage did exist, wages would be
| rising" rather than staying flat as they have "for the past 16
| years," wrote Ron Hira et al in USA Today, 2014. Obama might have
| heeded him or Andrew Hacker, Ben Tarnoff, Matt Bruenig, Michael
| Teitelbaum, Gerald Coles, Walter Hickey, Michael Anft, who raised
| similar alarms. Or Paul Krugman, who warned, "the belief that
| America suffers from a severe 'skills gap' is one of those things
| that everyone important knows must be true, because everyone they
| know says it's true"; it's "a zombie idea... that should have been
| killed by evidence, but refuses to die."

Will Trump nominate Betsy DeVos to succeed Miguel Cardona at Ed.GOV
and will Mitch McConnell consent?
John
groenveld@acm.org
--
"It's completely irrelevant that Trump hasn't publicly endorsed a
challenger. He's privately pulling for Ronna and his top lieutenant,
Susie Wiles, is publicly doing that. I'm going to keep repeating
this for people, with receipts." - Pedro Gonzalez <URL:https://twitter.com/emeriticus/status/1618842443138633728>

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