Educational Rights & Costs: "Debate will continue!" Like health care & fed. budgets?

 #vwwt2000 PREDICTION #20 of 20 from year 2000  

Educational Rights and Educational Costs
Debate will continue on how much education, of what kind, for whom. As with health care, the notions of a citizen’s educational rights and the locus of decision making about them will be difficult to resolve. Human society will recognize that the costs of the most effective kinds of education (like the costs of much of the most effective kinds of health care) will continue to rise faster than the costs of food, clothing, and housing. Quality of life will depend on access to better quality education and health care for all. [Will enough world resources be generated and allocated to provide everyone with adequate food, health care, shelter, clothing, and education? How will “adequate” be defined?]

[UPDATE  Sure, the "debate continues".  But what a couple of understatements I made in 2000!  

• "citizen’s educational rights and the locus of decision making about them will be difficult to resolve"

• "the costs of the most effective kinds of education (like the costs of much of the most effective kinds of health care) will continue to rise faster than the costs of food, clothing, and housing."

2011 COLLISION:  REAL IMPROVEMENTS, REAL COSTS, UNREAL EXPECTATIONS   Today July 13, 2011! the  United States government cannot resolve its own budgetary crisis or agree on how this extraordinarily wealthy country can escape or end the worldwide economic recession.  In part, we cannot face the facts of rising real costs associated with making unprecedented real improvements in health care and in higher education because we cannot disentangle the real and desirable cost increases from those caused by growing administrative complexity and rising/widening unrealistic expectations.  See Necessity is the Mother of Self-Deception.]

- 20th of 20 predictions from "A New Vision Worth Working Toward: Connected Education and Collaborative Change," Steven W. Gilbert, 2000-2006, First version published via AAHESGIT listserv January, 2000; PDF of full article

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