Posted on 05/31/2021 1:59:19 PM PDT by blam
Some college somewhere will make out like a bandit by having strict standards, pushing students to excel, and culling those who cannot cut it. Their degrees will be AAA, gold plated, and employers who want the best will line up for hires.
And by not having b.s. courses, it will be less expensive.
No. Work ethic and IQ go a long long way to success
Quotas and disguised racism in the form of “diversity “ and “affirmative action”
Education has been in decline for many decades. Why not end this farce and just hand people whatever degree they want? None of it means anything any more.
Absent standard test artifacts, employers are going to have to use a different approach to sort out the capable from the incapable. Expect lengthy "probation" and regular assessments to determine if an employee gets to remain or hit the bricks.
In one of my "junior" year biochem exams, we had a 98% and 99% score, a 42% and 46% score with the balance in the range of 89% to 92%. The parties with 42% and 46% have poor prospects for remaining for another quarter.
Goody. Because I want a heart surgeon that was passed through medical school for equity.
More dumbing down of education in order to accommodate disparities in outcomes by race. See this chart from nces.ed.gov on degrees conferred by race: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/pdf/coe_svc.pdf
Figures are from 2015. Notably:
- Blacks account for 13.6% of associate degrees, which overrepresents their proportion of the population by 8%
- Blacks account for 10.2% of bachelors degrees, which underrepresents their proportion of the population by 19%
- Blacks account for 11.5% of Masters degrees, which underrepresents their proportion of the population by 9%
- Blacks account for 7.4% of Doctor degrees, which underrepresents their proportion of the population by 59%
Would be more illuminating to distinguish by type of degree, but it seems to me that this chart identifies clearly that there is a core group of high-achieving black students who were prepared to go on to graduate degrees, while a larger portion of black students either were not qualified for or were unable to complete Associate and Bachelor degrees.
In other words, they should never have been passed along through high school in the 1st place. (And that with high high school drop-out rates already.)
The dumbing down continues !!!!!!’
Beyond ironic. I read that standardized tests were started years ago because kids from the more prestigious prep schools and high schools were given preferences in college admissions. Standardized testing was started to give the kids from less prestigious schools a way to demonstrate that their aptitude and achievement was equal to those from more prestigious schools.
It was a means to measure all applicants by one standard and achieve more fair admission standards.
But fairness is not what’s wanted these days.
Standardized Test multiple choice question #666:
You can reduce disparities in academic performance by:
A. destroying high performance.
B. destroying medium performance.
C. eliminating all measurement of academic performance.
D. hating, punishing, assaulting, and ostracizing academic achievement so high, medium, and barely capable performers hide all remnants of achievement.
E. rewarding stupidity, sloth, and low character.
F. all of the above.
Engineering school was a miserable experience.
School of mines?
Won’t reduce, just hide it.
I knew of an nursing program that only took the top 2 percent into its school. And only graduated 50%.
Their grads were known and in high demand all over the eastern seaboard.
Future employers who will automatically reject many because of their shoddy resumes will ask questions of those that get past the front door and will be further filtered by the way they speak and behave and dress let alone having real qualifications.
It is a high school in Baltimore.
That’s what I recall originally being reported. But the other fellow said it was a particular arts school (which could also be considered a high school) so I figured he’d come across more info.
Difficult to read through these articles without being incensed and in disbelief we’ve arrived to this dystopian nightmare.
Yeah; I was thinking about 2nd or 3rd grade for the inner city.
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