Inflated Grades, Increasing Graduation Rates, and Deflated Test Scores-Those who are obsessed with equity are doing great damage to American education

Frontpagemagazine ^ | January 22, 2024 | Larry Sand

[Myrddin]

At UCSD the students developed evaluations of professors independent of the school administration. It was aimed at identifying good instructors from flagellating butt heads that waste your time and money. A good free market approach. The bad profs were weeded out by having insufficient numbers of students to justify the specific class meeting.

[ronnie raygun]

And when they get out are covered with DEI.

[Lizavetta]

When are the tech companies, engineering companies, architecture, law firms, investment, etc., create their own "universities" that train future employees to the specifications and quality they are looking for?

Or has this already happened and I'm just not aware?

[Verginius Rufus]

I have a white friend who can’t read his own Ph.D. diploma. That’s because it was from Princeton and is in Latin.

[Verginius Rufus]

When Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas he wanted to get a reputation for improving education in the state, so they had the idea of making all the public school teachers pass a competency test. I think it was basically something an intelligent fifth or sixth grader could pass. He got a lot of push back because so many minority teachers couldn’t pass the test.

[American Infidel]

I guess flying lessons are a barrier to entry for those who want to be commercial pilots and medical schools are a “barrier to entry” to those who want to become surgeons. This is pure madness, but further proves the point that teacher’s unions are more concerned with expanding their membership (power base) than educating students, hence they want to make it as easy as possible for anyone to become a teacher and join the union as a dues-paying members and to exert political influence.