Newmark's Door

Even politicians should concede that 90% is kinda impressive.

Not good.

Also not good: "The Real Reason Johnny Can't Read: Bad Parenting".

Probably a partial solution: "Trades surge, colleges sink as the ‘toolbelt generation’ turns to hands-on work".

As Instapundit frequently writes, "Harsh but fair." Arnold Kling:

The trouble with higher education is bloat. The student bodies are bloated. The faculties are bloated. And the administrations are bloated. If colleges and universities were right-sized, many of the problems with higher education would be taken care of.

"Crippled" may be just a bit exaggerated but maybe not.

Worthwhile question but I have some quibbles with the answer:

1. The ranking compares only Financial Engineering and Quantitative Finance master's programs not MBAs. I presume some MBAs also get jobs in quant finance.
2. The compensation measure is "Base + sign-on bonus," so no fringe benefits or annual bonuses are included.
3. That compensation is not adjusted for cost-of-living differences among where the graduates take jobs. (Yes, difficult to do, but New York City $ and Indianapolis $, for example, would be drastically different.)
4. I wonder if "employment % of graduation day" is the best indicator of job market success. (The original source also has data on "employment rate after 3 months". The two measures could well be highly correlated, but other things equal I think I'd prefer the latter.)
5. No explanation if offered for the two outliers. 

For all but one of them the "average net price" is less than half the list price.

I went to junior high and high school in Broward County so this bit is especially interesting:

In Broward County, Florida’s second-largest school district, officials have floated plans to close up to 42 campuses over the next few years, moves that would have a ripple effect across Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood.

The district has lost more than 20,000 students over the last five years, a decline that comes as charter schools in particular experienced sizable growth in the area. Enrollment in charters, which are public schools operating under performance contracts freeing them of many state regulations, increased by nearly 27,000 students since 2010, according to Broward school officials.

Related: "Why Teachers Are Fleeing Public Schools".

And watch Milton Friedman, who might be called the Father of School Choice, smack down a dopey Palo Alto school board member.

Guess. Go ahead, guess.

A hair-curling first-person account of two years spent teaching in a Baltimore grade school.

"This is not satire, just real life in America."