One Standard Yglesias

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• chaogomu@lemmy.world ⁨48⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I’ll say we over expanded college in the wrong way. Turned it into a business. That greatly expanded the costs with little actual benefit.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨32⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I’m always deeply skeptical of this insistence that college offers “little benefit”. But I’ll happily concede that it functions as a bureaucratic hurdle, designed to favor the historically wealthy and socially entrenched over the impoverished and recently arrived.

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    • chaogomu@lemmy.world ⁨30⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      No, the added costs have little benefit.

      College itself is great. The added costs have not added to the experience.

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• arctanthrope@lemmy.world ⁨29⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  oh, we’re supposed to disagree with this? he’s right, and it’s Bush’s fault. because of “no child left behind” we’re letting kids who can’t read graduate high school. now, that’s not to say they should never graduate, but rather that they should have been taught to read, and not allowed to advance until they can

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨26⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    The “kids aren’t literate anymore” line really runs afoul of the abysmal state of standardized testing. Case in point:

    The Pineapple And The Hare: Can You Answer Two Bizarre State Exam Questions?

    This is what we’re using to evaluate literacy in the modern day. Tests designed to confuse students and flunk classrooms, in order to justify education privatization.

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    • Speculater@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      The animals are the pineapple.

      What the fuck even is that test question?

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• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  You can always count on Matty to not just be wrong, but to go out of his way to find the worst way to be wrong.

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