Terry,

Good post, but you underestimate the cost of education master’s degrees to the taxpayers. This scam also includes the huge taxpayer subsidies to schools of education that are just diploma mills.

The scam goes something like this: Ed schools benefit from the flow of students in to their MA programs. Schools can brag about the number of MAs they have on staff fooling parents into believing that their kids are getting a better education from teachers with MAs. Taxpayers lose because they foot the bill and kids suffer because student achievement does not improve.

Another consequence is that increasingly the ed schools, lacking any meaningful substance to teach, indoctrinate teachers with Marxism. Thus, the MA degree teacher becomes a more effective teacher of Marxism.