In addition to managing many great lifestyle offers for affiliates, Blue Phoenix Media also operates The Academic Network, a portal that hosts offers for many educational opportunities. To that end, we also regularly highlight innovations happening across education despite shrinking budgets and disproportionate class sizes.

Over at the Washington Post, George F. Will argues that education has–contrary to popular belief–been rather recession-proof. He writes about the disparity between government and private-sector jobs:

While the private sector has shed 8.5 million jobs — 7.4 percent of workers — during the recession, local governments have lost only 141,000, less than 1 percent.

Which tends to make light of of all the cutbacks the educational system has suffered through the years, unlike private sector-jobs. Which may explain why as the recession waged on, there was little by way of job loss in education. That job loss had already been underway well before the economic downturn.

But ultimately, Will’s analysis spins its wheels. It tries to make a point about education as a growth industry–even though in many parts of the country it still struggles to meet entry-level criteria.

Although it seems like Washington is siding with Will on this as a $23 billion bailout to save teachers and librarians from losing their jobs is dead in the water.

Some workers are coping with such dramatic cutbacks through creative demonstrations. Most notably, librarians across New York City are hosting a 24-hour read-in Saturday, June 12–a movement designed to draw attention to another round of massive budget cuts that’s set to further trim down the already-lean library system.

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