Posted on 08/21/2021 6:32:06 PM PDT by artichokegrower
California State University students are failing or withdrawing at high rates from many courses — including chemistry, calculus, English and U.S. history — prompting renewed efforts for systemwide reform.
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China is laughing at us
The ChiComs are licking their chops.
Just charge fail prone students $100 grand, award a diploma without the hassle of attending classes for four to six years.
The only solution is pass/fail.
Or just mail everybody a diploma for $150K.
Passing US History is as easy as regurgitating the liberal propaganda from the professor. Just blame the whiteman, make any minority out to be a victim, criticize any post WWII military campaign, and heap praise on any labor union. Doesn’t matter the depth of knowledge.
It’s almost as if the Bell Curve is real…
Gee...this is what happens when you drop all admissions criteria (including the SAT).
Of course, their “solution” will be to fire all the White professors. Because diversity.
Somehow I doubt their reform means more tutors, or comprehensive study groups.
I can save a lot of reading for all y’all.
CSU courses dumbed down to increase passing rates. Breathing now 50% of grade credit.
Calculus will be replaced by Napping 101, guaranteed everyone passes that.
I KNOW!!! I have the answer!!
Just lower grading standards. Everybody gets an A. Problem solved.
But they all hate whitey .
especially the millennia morons .
congrats cali commies
The cool thing about Math this century is that 2 + 2 = Whatever You Want. You don’t even have to memorize the answer the communist prof wants you to regurgitate. There IS NO WRONG ANSWER.
“Right” answers are acting white and wanting to please the white man.
I used to teach College Chemistry, enormous pressure from the PC Deans to lower my standards and please the bean counters.
When I was University of Oklahoma in 1970, the engineering department had all of their incoming students take two semesters of physics from the physics department. It was the same undergraduate physics course which physics majors were expected to take.
Everyone knew that it was a way to cull out the students who wouldn’t make it in engineering.
Our second semester physics class had four sessions and three instructors. There were 160 students total. The instructors would make up the exams during the semester and then the instructors would take them and grade themselves. I was really proud of myself when, just before the final exam, my instructor announced to our class that not only did I have the best overall exam score, but I had tied the results of one of the instructors. They waived the final exam for me.
Today, with relaxed entrance requirements, I’m sure that the culling needs to be in place. Otherwise, the whole program will get bogged down with students who have no business in college.
But, of course, that is the plan!
Oregon students should be welcome in their system. They won’t have to pass anything (starting in 2026) in high school to get a diploma.
Making the university even more worthless.
The grifters that benefit from the mid-education of our kids get paid beaucoup money to fix what they broke. Payback is a bitch.
Looks like author Larry Gordon doesn't fully grasp the purpose of grading. Failing classes is INTENDED to tell the kid that YOU CAN'T CUT IT -- go find another major. The "tailspin" is exactly what's needed.
When I entered Engineering school back in the fall of 1969, we were explicitly told to look left and right. Two of the three of you would not be graduating as a Mechanical Engineer in four years. A TWO THIRDS drop-out rate was fully EXPECTED.
Grades communicate if you are going to make it the same way prices communicate whether you can afford a product or not.
Author Gordon is an absolute idiot himself. If he went to college, he sure didn't gain any smarts.
They want to funnel students into the free community college Biden program.
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