[Emile]

Another industry asking for a bailout. Anyone surprised that they’re all lining up?

[Major Matt Mason]

This, he argues, would help universities and colleges serving low-income and minority students to offer “remedial education,” student support services, and “help these students all the way along to retain them in college and to graduate them.”

Um, don't we take care of "remedial education" in grade school and high school? Aren't we already spending billions (and probably trillions) to educate these idiots? But what's a few billion more when you can just print the money. Welcome to Obamanomics.

[wastedyears]

I’m not a dropout, therefore I don’t qualify.

Nor do I have interest in going to college in the current political climate.

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[The_Reader_David]

Oh, goody. We already have too many people in our colleges and have lowered standards so much that it’s hard to flunk out as many as should be flunked out.

It’s bad enough with university administrations taking the attitude that students are customers and customers must be made happy. Taking student evaluations of teaching too seriously without controlling for the fact that students will always blame the instructor for their own failings completely eroded all academic standards (except for the admissions standards of ‘elite’ schools). Now the Obamaites will expect us to educate everyone?

The only result with be Bachelors degrees will become as debased as high school diplomas, and within a generation one will need a Master degree to get any serious job.

[anoldafvet]

Of course when he gets done there won’t be any JOBS for them, but what the hell, it’s his intentions that count. We’ll have the highest educated janitorial force in the world.

[GeronL]

right. they’ll just stick it in their endowmwnt funds and raise tuition prices

[reaganaut1]

Intelligence, like other human traits, is partly hereditary. The children of doctors, lawyers, and engineers will on average be more intelligent than those of lower-income workers, so a higher fraction of the former have the brains to graduate from college.

An even more politically incorrect assertion is that the races are not equally intelligent on average, and that a higher fraction of youngsters being black and Hispanic (which is already happening) dooms the goal of having higher college graduation rates.

[alexander_busek]

This, he argues, would help universities and colleges serving low-income and minority students to offer “remedial education,” student support services, and “help these students all the way along to retain them in college and to graduate them.”

Why stop there? Why not also offer remedial post-graduate studies? Remedial medical school and remedial medical internships? Remedial professorships? Shouldn't we be doing more to help "slower" students become heart surgeons, rocket scientists, and architects?

Regards,