The Big Squeeze

First, community colleges are no longer offering Rosetta stone
as much practical training as they once did. To attract more students, many have modified their course offerings to become more like private institutions. While President Obama has pledged to invest heavily in community colleges and upgrade their training programs, the changes are long overdue. Second, for-profit colleges and universities are in trouble. A number of them are being investigated right now by Congress because of shady recruiting practices and abuse of government programs for funding higher education. It seems likely that a number of for-profit schools will shut their doors.The result? American students will find it harder to find schools that offer the practical training they need to secure jobs. And we all know what can happen when a country's workers are under-trained, compared to workers in other countries. The result will likely be further damage to the American economy and business.What Rosetta Stone Spanish
Will Save American Higher Education?The trends outlined above are grim. Yet the situation is far from hopeless. A number of positive trends are at work that point to the possibility that American higher education is not going away, but simply changing.*America still has the strongest educational infrastructure in the world. We simply have more colleges and universities than any other country. Many of these institutions are already reinventing themselves by offering distance learning options, three-year degree programs and other incentives for modern learners. *Americans' desire for education remains strong. With so many of our citizens hungering for learning, there is ample incentive for colleges to develop new learning options for them. *The timeline of education has changed. More Americans are returning to college at all stages of life. The result is that a larger pool of Americans who are interested in higher education. Rosetta Stone Spanish (Latin America) Levev 1-5
*Distance learning is moving into the forefront of American higher education. As Bill Gates predicted on August 9 in his talk at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, it is already possible to deliver a college education over the Internet for as little as $2,000. In the end, we predict that American ingenuity will not only survive these crises, but turn America into a new kind of community of learners.