The Consumer Price Index has increased 2.3 percent in the last year — slightly higher than the Fed's target rate — and some costs, including energy and education, have surged.
Yet far from saving liberal education, the conservative surge is accelerating its decay by inundating undergraduate life with far too much marketing, self-marketing, national-security strategising, pseudo-religious opportunism and jejune affectations of classical virtue.
"In the cosmology of the play," Mr. Baitz said, "U.S. defense spending keeps increasing, the deficit balloons, jobs continue going overseas and less and less is spent on education, creating a surge of bewildered and undereducated children let loose on a collapsing America.
Ms. Tenenbaum, the state education chief, had surged to become a formidable opponent.
As a result, the usual August surge in education employment — which the Labor Department's seasonal adjustments are intended to account for — did not happen until September this year.
MATSUMOTO, Japan — The big news from Asia about Western classical music has been coming for a decade from China, where the surge in education and performance has been explosive.
The most acclaimed Bay Area youth choruses, whose after-school programs range from around $600 to $1,850 a year in student fees depending on the organization (scholarships are available), are striving to mitigate the budget cuts in music education and serve the surge in interest in singing prompted by pop culture.
Surgical education is witnessing a surge in the use of simulation.
These losses were offset by increases in health and education employment and a surge in hiring of temporary workers.
