Aizle wrote:
(i) I don't see any evidence of that happening in the major accredited schools. If there's evidence out there, please link it.
I've linked plenty of empirical evidence on this in the past, only to be met with summary dismissals of the sources and the argument. I'm not sure I'm inclined to do it again. And, unfortunately, anything truly useful that I can provide you requires access to an academic library. Journal studies just aren't that available to non-paying readers in the internet world.
Aizle wrote:
(ii) Possible, but I thought that folks here generally felt that people should be held accountable for their own actions.
Except, going to college when you are not economically, psychologically, or academically prepared has very little responsibility burden. You cannot provide recompense for your drain on the system.
Aizle wrote:
(iii) I'm not sure that I buy that having more students somehow increases overall cost for schooling. In most every business that I know, increasing production allows you to be able to reduce costs. There is perhaps some argument for devaluing the employment advantages of a degree by having more of them around, but I'm not convinced that the detriment there outweights the overall benefits of having a more educated public.
Eh, you can't increase supply to meet demand, since education requires placing a burden on qualified people. You have two choices, and this covers part of the problem with the first point: either you somehow find a way to produce more qualified instructors, or you lower the qualifications necessary for instructors. Throwing 600 students in a lecture is simply not feasible for the majority of subjects. And, to that end, our public isn't more educated. Declining Standardized Test scores, standards, and college acceptance minimums indicate that increasing access to universities has no net positive effect on baseline education in the country. And you can look at the effect it's had on hiring minimums ...
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