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.
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You apparently lack an all female HR department to relieve you of your predjudice and hire women for everything /s
It was true 55 years ago when I was in college.
I’m thinking the easiest is a degree in Journalism.
How hard can it be to simply re-print the talking points you get emailed from the DNC.
Engineering degree GPA is commonly lower as many of the classes are very difficult to grasp.
The other major several of my college buddies that liked to party too much was business administration. These are your future corporate business managers that become overworked and underpaid.
My brother ended up in this when he partied too much, and had to drop the pre med courses. He had wanted to be a vet, but could not get into any programs because he was a white male.
He ended up running a dinning hall for Marriott’s food service division at UNC. Eventually he got burned out on working 60-80 hour weeks and went into sales for one of his restaurant suppliers. Now he mostly sells soap.
Same for me. I graduated from a state college in Minnesota in 1971.
My major in Education was in science. I had a year of chemistry, a year of physics, a year of biology,a year of trig and calculus. I also had courses in oceanography, meteorology, astronomy, geology, and courses on rocks and minerals. I don’t think l had it easy.
“You apparently lack an all female HR department to relieve you of your predjudice and hire women for everything /s”
The only thing I look at when I’m hiring is qualifications and based on that I determine the ability to be trained in a timely manner. I don’t care about diversity, I care about whether my people can do the job and support my customer 100%.
I stopped hiring snowflakes because they think they are entitled to the job and cause more problems than solve problems. I like hiring people in mid career.
Methinks you’re quite the rarity. These days, you might be a unicorn.
Kiddy lit was mostly for athletic scholarship jocks, back in the day.
The easiest college to get into was no interview-required Tulane with a one page single-sided application: basically check the box if you want to attend. Acceptance was automatic.
Here in Connecticut, entrance into the UConn education school is competitive. You have to have two years of college, and they only take the people with the best grades. You can’t just decide to major in education, you have to be admitted.
How do Ed colleges teach that? Speech class?
Same, and I tutored many of them. They have no business teaching anyone anything; frankly, they do not belong in college and having EVERYONE take the same leveling courses (e.g. PHYS 101, CALC I, etc) would largely solve this problem. If you can't pass intro science courses then don't teach science.
The writing is poor. Sounds like a paper my high schooler would write. And the exclamation point!
DOKTOR Jill Biden is proof that even some gold diggers with a bought-off education PhD can hit the mother lode occasionally....
It’s worse now. Just talk to and question a teacher. They are idiots. They have low IQs. They are ignorant. Many are illiterate.
More than ever, education funding needs to go directly to parents so they can decide where to educate their children. That includes homeschool.
My program did chemistry before you started physics, so single-variable calculus was behind you before starting physics. So I was taking multi-variable calculus while taking physics. And I think they did Maxwell’s equations and such late in the physics sequence, so you had a fair amount of multivariable calculus behind you when you hit the basics of that.
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