Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: GOPJ
Let’s move to de-fund colleges. Pull back on student loans... stop pell grants etc. If we stop feeding education factories - AND their unqualified staff - they’ll wither away and die.

What caused the increase in people going to college to get worthless degrees, was a 1970 Supreme court ruling, Griggs v Duke Power, which barred using tests for job applicants if a lower percentage of blacks passed. So companies used "college degree" as a means of checking if the applicant was literate.

Pass legislation that says that tests may be used in hiring and promotion, without regard to whether different groups pass at different rates, and the college industry will implode. Companies could once-again hire straight out of high school, selecting for applicants with high SAT scores.

17 posted on 04/20/2018 7:27:07 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies ]


In a perfect world maybe....conservatives have tried that righteous route so much that we are going extinct...because the leftists have no concerns about crushing our free speech...


19 posted on 04/20/2018 7:30:05 AM PDT by TnTnTn
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies ]

To: PapaBear3625
What caused the increase in people going to college to get worthless degrees, was a 1970 Supreme court ruling, Griggs v Duke Power, which barred using tests for job applicants if a lower percentage of blacks passed. So companies used "college degree" as a means of checking if the applicant was literate.

Pass legislation that says that tests may be used in hiring and promotion, without regard to whether different groups pass at different rates, and the college industry will implode. Companies could once-again hire straight out of high school, selecting for applicants with high SAT scores.

Ferreting out perverse incentives - and their toxic unintended consequences is as important as cutting silly regulations... Thanks for sharing this Papabear...

29 posted on 04/20/2018 8:35:12 AM PDT by GOPJ ( "Universities are becoming laughing stocks of intolerance." - Harvard professor Steven Pinker)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson