Posted on 07/01/2022 4:41:41 AM PDT by karpov
A college degree is just about essential to make a lot of money in a career, but what if you don't want to work all that hard to get a diploma?
Slackers wanting to earn the country's easiest college major, should major in education.
It's easy to get "A's" if you're an education major. Maybe that's why one out of 10 college graduates major in education
Research over the years has indicated that education majors, who enter college with the lowest average SAT scores, leave with the highest grades. Some of academic evidence documenting easy A's for future teachers goes back more than 50 years!
The latest damning report on the ease of majoring in education comes from research at the University of Missouri, my alma mater. The study, conducted by economist Cory Koedel shows that education majors receive "substantially higher" grades than students in every other department.
Koedel examined the grades earned by undergraduates during the 2007-2008 school year at three large state universities that include sizable education programs -- University of Missouri, Miami (OH) University and Indiana University. The researcher compared the grades earned by education majors with the grades earned by students in 12 other majors including biology, economics, English, history, philosophy, mathematics, chemistry, psychology and sociology. Education majors enjoyed grade point averages that were .5 to .8 grade points higher than students in the other college majors. At the University of Missouri, for instance, the average education major has a 3.80 GPA versus 2.99 GPA (science, math, econ majors), 3.12 GPA (social science majors) and 3.16 GPA (humanities majors).
Why should we care if education majors, who must survive classes like "kiddie lit," coast through school? For starters, easy grading can prompt students to slack off.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
You can stop reading right there. A typical college degree today is next to worthless and may qualify you to make Frappuccino's at the local Starbucks. I'd much rather hire a person with actual skills and a work ethic.
Also, that first sentence sounds like it was written by a 12 year old.
This came from CBS News?? Knock me over with a feather.
Comparing GPAs between majors is a useless exercise. The average education major couldn’t have handled a single one of my chemistry courses.
Oh...it was published in 2011. I guess CBS had not quite completed its woke purge yet.
Dr Evil’s major .
Home wrecking adulteress power and money hungry Whores specialty .
The WSJ published a similar study in the 90’s.
In the WSJ study, the second easiest major with the second highest GPA was Journalism.
And there's a very legitimate argument to be made that ed majors SHOULD have to pass the "hard" version of at least the 101-level of math and science courses.
If you ever find yourself in a bookstore, in the magazine section see if you can find the “US News” special edition on college graduate programs, which I did some years ago.
The top-ranked Ivy league ed program had people entering with average GRE scores lower than the 40th ranked engineering masters program.
The 101 level of my college Physics course required calculus.
I’m guessing Political Science is the 2nd easiest.
Aficken American studies?
Weirdo gender studies?
Has anyone else tried to read this article? The popup ads and spam make it impossible for me.
Thomas Sowell has written extensively about this. He says ‘Schools of Education’ have one-purpose, to graduate as many left-wing radicals as possible, and to weed out normal people by making the classes as dull as possible.
I’ve always said that if I had the power to hire teachers, I would AUTOMATICALLY exclude anyone with an Education Degree.
And likewise, if I were to hire people for a news outlet, I would AUTOMATICALLY exclude those with Journalism or Communications degrees.
There is literally NOTHING those 3 degrees bring to the party other than assuring Flaming Leftists. I have no problem requiring a 4 year degree for any of the above jobs (it’s needed, due to dumbed-down high schools), but never in any of those 3 areas.
Isn’t Dr. Jill an Education major?
I majored in Physics and Mathematics. Within the first month of my freshman year, in my physics, chemistry, and calculus classes, all that dropped the classes changed their majors to education.
“You can stop reading right there. A typical college degree today is next to worthless and may qualify you to make Frappuccino’s at the local Starbucks. I’d much rather hire a person with actual skills and a work ethic.”
Liberal Arts degrees are worthless. I only hire people with STEM degrees. And I do not hire from Ivy League schools.
Double-digit IQs.
Nothing new. This was true 40yrs ago.
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