Moderator’s introduction
Today's moderator: Maureen Downey
Maureen Downey has written about local, state and federal education policy at the AJC for 12 years. She’s also taught college classes in mass communications and journalism. However, she’s learned more about schools from having four children in them.
Is an engineering degree more valuable to the community than an English degree? Some states are considering basing tuition at their public colleges on a student’s major, charging less for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) degrees, for which there are more waiting jobs. But this tiered tuition concept creates problems, according to a guest column today by a Georgia State University professor. In my column today, I discuss yearbooks and why schools ought to pay more attention to them. And readers sound off on whether teaching is a calling or just another job.
» MORE: Tiered tuition | Get Schooled: Yearbooks | Your responses
About the Author
Maureen Downey has written editorials and opinion pieces about local, state and federal education policy since the 1990s.
