{"id":12844,"date":"2011-03-09T10:51:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T18:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=12844"},"modified":"2011-03-09T10:55:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T18:55:15","slug":"what-are-you-actually-paying-for-when-you-pay-for-an-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=12844","title":{"rendered":"What Are You Actually Paying For When You Pay For an Education?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the two separate but related discussion we&#8217;ve been having about <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/22\/this-week%e2%80%99s-cartoon-%e2%80%9ca-teachable-moment%e2%80%9d\/\">teacher&#8217;s unions<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/04\/disturbing-statistics-about-remedial-students-at-community-colleges\/\">student performance<\/a> have started me thinking about a question that I wonder about a lot: What is the product that you think you are paying for when you pay for an education? And I don&#8217;t care whether it&#8217;s K-12, undergraduate, graduate, trade school&#8211;doesn&#8217;t matter&#8211;though I suppose it&#8217;s might be necessary, in the case of public schooling, to distinguish between what you think your tax money pays for, in the broadest sense, when it comes to education and what you think it is that teachers are paid to produce.<\/p>\n<p>I mean this as a very serious question, because I sometimes think that the degree to which discussions about how to fix our educational system fail has a lot to do with the degree to which this question remains unasked and\/or unanswered and\/or poorly answered at best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the two separate but related discussion we&#8217;ve been having about teacher&#8217;s unions and student performance have started me thinking about a question that I wonder about a lot: What is the product that you think you are paying for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=12844\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12846,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12844\/revisions\/12846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}