In other words, let us try another way. We don't know if it'll work, but it'll cost ya.
We already know this is true of Headstart. Common sense tells you it would be even less effective for college kids.
The world needs plumbers, carpenters and roofers a lot more then we need philosophers...
I graduated high school in 1972 and went to community college.The first year I majored in Pinball during the breaks and never really went to class. I dropped out of it all and tried again in 1972. It was different. I LOVED chemistry and became the “go-to” student all the others would go to to get answers. But that lasted only a few weeks and the teachers went on strike. I was done with college.
Interestingly, just this year, thanks to Youtube, I’m becoming fascinated with chemistry again.
Tell me this is a joke! How much of our taxpayer money went to this CRAP?
Most professors assign a ton of work and heaven help you if your prof does the “flipped classroom” model, which ends in classroom time spent in daily group study sessions that resemble a text based scavenger hunt where everyone gets spends too much time trying to figure out group dynamics since these are mostly assigned. This reduces the professor’s input to being a moderator and assignor of readings. Then there are the social justice and “enrichment” activities that are intended to be “nudges”, so yeah, most people are going to prioritize what has to get done and leave the “nudges” behind wherever possible.
I can tell you that whoever came up with the well meaning flipped classroom, nudges, and other unholy progeny of academic research projects likely watered with the tears of grad students should burn in hell!
Somehow it doesn’t surprise me that when what these guys did didn’t work that they would decide that more money was what was called for.
The Remarkable Unresponsiveness of College Students to Nudging And What We Can Learn from It
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You can lead a person to knowledge but you can’t make them think?
Every day, I come to Free Republic, and somebody is complaining about how stupid Liberals are.
They vote stupidly. They act stupidly. They believe stupid things.
OK.
How are we going to change that?
By sending them to plumbers school?
By having them balance chemical equations?
Perhaps more geometry will do it.
The big problems in our country are not caused by our citizen’s lack of math abilities.
Every Democrat knows that $100 of welfare is better than $50 of welfare.
They’ve got that.
Nudge this...
Stick THAT in your pipe and smoke it, Cass Sunstein.
People should be out in the workforce before college.
It gives them focus.
They should also be working a part time job in high school, because developing a work ethic early is just as important over the long haul as scoring high on exams.
It's easier to burn out if you try to be a high achiever. Do they end up happier in the long run by being productive at a lower level?
A nod’s as good as a wink to a blind bat, eh?
The kids get constant “nudging” and pressure from social media. The sheer numbers or persistence there have more effect than your weekly reminder to study.
Found your candidate for President for 2020 yet?
As a student I can tell you that the “nudges” are prevalent and probably viewed by most people as obstacles that it is justifiable to game by any means imaginable. If you come up with a good strategy than share it with others.