{"id":34,"date":"2013-09-25T00:48:54","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T00:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennywatchers.org\/blog\/?p=34"},"modified":"2013-09-25T00:51:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T00:51:00","slug":"commentary-on-william-bennetts-book-is-college-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennywatchers.org\/blog\/commentary-on-william-bennetts-book-is-college-worth-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Commentary on William Bennett&#8217;s Book &#8220;Is College Worth It?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch a live round panel discussion featuring William Bennett and other trusted authorities discuss the book entitled &#8220;Is College Worth It?&#8221;. <em>Is College Worth it?<\/em> is a book written by William Bennet and David Wilezol where they report of the state of higher education in America.<\/p>\n<h3>Did You Know?<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>Over 40 percent of first-time undergraduates don\u2019t graduate within six years of starting college<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I feel that it&#8217;s highly important that you watch this video which is only about 10 minutes long. If you&#8217;ve paid any attention to the national debate over higher education in the past couple of years this book will be of great interest to you. <\/p>\n<p><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" style=\"border:solid 2px #000000;margin:2px;padding:2px;width:480px; height:385px;\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4ZvzUr1vpVA?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4ZvzUr1vpVA?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch a live round panel discussion featuring William Bennett and other trusted authorities discuss the book entitled &#8220;Is College Worth It?&#8221;. Is College Worth it? is a book written by William Bennet and David Wilezol where they report of the state of higher education in America. Did You Know? Over 40 percent of first-time undergraduates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennywatchers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennywatchers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennywatchers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennywatchers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennywatchers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennywatchers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennywatchers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennywatchers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennywatchers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennywatchers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}