nearly 50% higher than a decade ago. so for those who have yet to declare a major, what are the most useful degrees? the daily beast ranks them like this, number one, biomedical engineering, followed by business, education, software engineering and petroleum engine engineering. the least useful college mayors, fashion design, advertising, agriculture, and horticulture. you need to take whatever you re good at and whatever someone will pay you for. tiger mothers already know all this. they re pushing their kids for absolute excellence in their field, but do all the ville lol and math beat competitions help them succeed after school?
ouch. but true, l.z. granderson wrote an opinion piece this weekend. kids may should go to school year round in part because we re trying to compete with the rest of the world where they re pretty serious about education. hi, l.z. what prompted you to write this piece? oh, man, saturd saturday nig live skit is a good place. it really started with my own frustrations as a parent. i have taken my son to four different schools in about two years desperately trying to get him into a school that s going to push him and have him ready to complete with the rest of the world and this is both public as well as private schools and i finally found somewhere and i m lucky because i have the resources and the ability to do that, but everyone in this country doesn t and that really concerns me. in united states on average, you go to school 180 days and we re going to show you in the back where that is with other industrialized countries. you think if there was a longer school year,