{"id":31938,"date":"2012-08-23T14:43:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T18:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=31938"},"modified":"2012-09-13T17:06:24","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T21:06:24","slug":"part-of-the-perfect-storm-for-higher-ed-in-the-us-the-middle-class-falls-further-behind-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/08\/23\/part-of-the-perfect-storm-for-higher-ed-in-the-us-the-middle-class-falls-further-behind-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Part of the perfect storm for higher ed in the US &#8212; &#8220;The middle class falls further behind&#8221; [Smith]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2012\/08\/22\/news\/economy\/middle-class-pew\/index.html?\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31939\" title=\"MiddleClassFallsFurtherBehind-Aug2012\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MiddleClassFallsFurtherBehind-Aug2012.jpg\" alt=\"The middle class falls further behind -- part of the perfect storm for higher ed in the US  \" width=\"582\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MiddleClassFallsFurtherBehind-Aug2012.jpg 582w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MiddleClassFallsFurtherBehind-Aug2012-136x150.jpg 136w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Along with a host of other trends, this is a piece of the perfect storm in higher ed. People will find a way to make a living &#8212; whether this involves &#8220;traditional&#8221; higher education or not. From a career development side of things, robotics may make these graphics even more pronounced as jobs move from being done by humans to jobs being done by robots.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewsocialtrends.org\/2012\/08\/22\/the-lost-decade-of-the-middle-class\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Lost Decade of the Middle Class<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; pewsocialtrends.org<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"sdt-2012-08-22-Middle-Class-01-01\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pewsocialtrends.org\/files\/2012\/08\/sdt-2012-08-22-Middle-Class-01-01.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"779\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Addendums:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/blog\/the-rising-cost-of-higher-education-schooltutoring-com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>[Infographic] The Rising Cost of Higher Education<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 SchoolTutoring.com <em>&lt;&#8211; though I would be very interested to see some of this information updated to include data up through the end of 2011; the graphics\/trends would be even more pronounced<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2012\/09\/12\/news\/economy\/median-income-poverty\/index.html?\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Median income falls, but so does poverty<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from money.cnn.com by Tami Luhby<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; From DSC: Along with a host of other trends, this is a piece of the perfect storm in higher ed. People will find a way to make a living &#8212; whether this involves &#8220;traditional&#8221; higher education or not. From a career development side of things, robotics may make these graphics even more pronounced as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,57,159,72,306,36,35,62,436,437,310,206,321,299],"tags":[659,290,606,349,585,601,779,780,722,676,728,572,717],"class_list":["post-31938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-development","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-daniel-s-christian","category-economics","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-online-learning","category-reinvent","category-robotics","category-staying-relevant","category-trends","category-united-states","category-workplace","tag-career-development","tag-cost-of-getting-an-education","tag-daniel-s-christian","tag-economicsbusiness","tag-game-changing-environment","tag-online-learning","tag-reinvent","tag-robotics","tag-staying-relevant","tag-trends","tag-united-states","tag-walmart-of-education","tag-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31938"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32442,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31938\/revisions\/32442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}