[circlecity]

This is probably being pushed by the colleges as a money making deal.

[Verginius Rufus]

I don’t live in New Mexico and don’t know if the colleges are behind this idea, but if it passed and resulted in an upsurge in college enrollments, for sure the college administrations would want to keep that additional money...which would mean pressuring the faculty to give passing grades to students who are not capable of college-level work. Or maybe I should say, pressuring the faculty to give passing grades even more than now.

[Leaning Right]

> This is probably being pushed by the colleges as a money making deal. <

Bragging rights are also involved. “In our state, most of our kids go to college!” it doesn’t matter that college is a bad fit for at least half of them.

I see this on the local level as well. Our school district is pushing EVERY high school student into advanced algebra. “100% of our students take advanced algebra!”

No surprise that this is a disaster. Unprepared kids are miserable, andstart misbehaving in class. Teachers water down the course to keep half the class from flunking.

But 100% of our students take advanced algebra!

[oldbrowser]

This is probably being pushed by the colleges as a money making deal.

Better described as the college teacher employment act.