After all, the requirements of business are to do with the financial value of a school-leaver and not with his or her full range of abilities.
Without regaining control of intercollegiate athletics, the ethics and values of a school will deteriorate.
Schools must be made to understand the value of creating a school culture free from sexual harassment, sexual violence, and gender based-discrimination. Until schools step up to the plate, students, parents, and organizations must demand Title IX compliance.
Mohamed Mansour, a distance-learning MBA student at IE Business School in Spain, wonders about the value of a business school's brand I WAS never interested in leaving my job to join a full-time MBA programme.
But proponents say that with the decline in manufacturing and the growth of the information economy, higher educational standards are needed to reinforce the value of a high school diploma.
Dr. Tisch has questioned the value of a high school diploma from the city and the reliability of test-score increases among students in grades three through eight, telling the audience at a forum in August, "I think the city has an obligation to show the public that what they've done here is real".
But in the end, the real value of a prep school education is more than just getting into Harvard.
It is the same disillusionment many students presently face in a climate where high stakes testing and cuts to funding for music and the arts, not to mention vocational training, erode the value of a high school diploma.
Though some dispute the validity of these numbers and there is an argument to be made that the value of a high school diploma may be lower than it once was (either as a ticket to a middle-class wage or a signal that a student is ready to succeed in college), it's pretty clear that having a high school diploma is a lot better than not having one.
Aides rode the bus with pregnant girls, showing them a school where they could bring their babies, and argued with parents about the value of a high-school diploma.
