Sunday, October 5, 2014

Welcome to my blog!

Hello!

My name is Alexander and I am currently enrolled in the Higher Education -- Educational Leadership M.Ed program within my current graduate school. This blog has been created as per assignment instructions for my Microcomputing in Education course, EDM-510. This is a group exercise.

Classmates, please review the rest of my post below. Under my picture you will see your instructions as well as a link to an article on the subject discussed in my blog post. I would love to hear your thoughts and opinions so have at it! Further instructions are provided in the actual posting.

Alexander


Norway, Germany...America too? Will we join the list of nations offering free higher education?



Class,

There are those, like the author of the article I will ask you to read in this post, who believe that higher education should be free for the people of this country, as it is in other countries currently. Germany most recently abolished tuition fees as Lower Saxony was the last of seven German states to absolve the cost of higher education. 

Hamburg’s senator for science, Dorothee Stapelfeldt, said in a statement: “They [tuition and fees] discourage young people who do not have a traditional academic family background from taking up study. It is a core task of politics to ensure that young women and men can study with a high quality standard free of charge in Germany.”

So I'd like your thoughts on the subject. Do you think America should raise taxes to provide students free higher education? Please post a couple sentences on your thoughts; whether your disagree or agree isn't as important as discussing with everyone!