Starving Our Seed Corn With Cuts in School Funding

A pal of mine on staff at UC Berkeley has been watching heads hit the ground around her for months. My friends who are teachers are fretting about cutbacks in budgets that had already been slashed to the bone. From other educators, I know that from pre-K to post-docs, school funding has slowed to a drip of a trickle. In a thought-provoking recent NYT piece, "The Uneducated American," Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman wonders why we permit starving our seed corn like this.