Nerd News: Harvard Study on Overselling College

Well, well, well.  Read the whole thing.  That sound you hear is the higher education bubble popping.  For the umpteenth time, the one-size-fits-all "everybody must go to college" idea is going to ruin, bankrupt, and in other ways ill-serve too many people.  Blurb:

The United States can learn from other countries, particularly in northern Europe, Professor Schwartz says. In Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, and Switzerland, for instance, between 40 and 70 percent of high-schoolers opt for programs that combine classroom and workplace learning, many of them involving apprenticeships. These pathways result in a “qualification” that has real currency in the labor market.

Hmmmm.