Yet they note that in the 1990s, when universities complained that reduced government grants were eroding education, "not one of them responded by increasing the teaching obligations of their permanent instructors.
The recession eroded education funding, taking with it school counselors, teacher aides and the feeling of job security that used to come along with the pencils and books in entering the profession.
Critics fear DeVos, whose husband suggested while running for governor of Michigan that schools teach intelligent design, will use her position as education secretary to push her religious beliefs into the classroom and erode science education.
But I fear that this policy would not only further erode language education in our schools, while having a scant effect on the future high-tech workforce.
Some Texans worry that ideologically driven review panel members and state school board members are slowly eroding science education in the state.
After years of watching the state's budget for higher education erode, they are demanding that the state and university administrators find a way to lower tuition that they say is squeezing out the middle class.
Human capital perhaps the country's greatest single asset is inevitably devaluing as corruption, poverty, emigration and the passage of time erode the Soviet education and science systems.New hope lies in the fact that reform has accelerated this year, not slowed, and a government reshuffle in the new year could give it a further boost.
State Comptroller Judy Topinka warns of a $2-billion collapse that will further erode funding for education and vital human services as leaders grapple with pensions and other accumulated obligations.
Principals know the truth and have to deal with it as best they can, but unions are reluctant to admit weaknesses in any of their members, colleges are loath to acknowledge the poor quality of their education programs, and administrators are afraid that confronting the problem will further erode confidence in public education.
He helped write the group's report "Alarmingly Useless," which documents the fact that car alarms, as we know them, at least, do not deter theft, though they do harm public health, impede education, and erode urban civility.
