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| Remedial math at Harvard |
| 2024-09-07 |
[AmericanThinker] ...Charles Murray is a prolific author and writer on education. He notes: For 40 years, American leaders have been unwilling to discuss the underlying differences in academic ability that children bring to the classroom. Over the same period, federal policy, backed by billions of taxpayer dollars in loans and grants, has aggressively encouraged more and more students to try to obtain a college education. As a result, about half of all high-school graduates now enroll in four-year colleges, despite the ample evidence that just a small minority of American students — about 10-15% — have the academic ability to do well in college.But they're real good at having pro-Hamas demonstrations ...The problem is when Barack Obama federalized the student loan industry, colleges were incentivized to admit everyone with a loan, which led to remedial high schools on campus, tuition inflation, grade inflation, and the devaluation of a college degree. One would think our Ivy League schools would not fall into this academic death spiral. One would think "surely they’d maintain academic standards!" One would think wrong. Even Harvard, our first university, founded in 1636 to teach ministers, has succumbed: The Harvard Math Department will pilot a new introductory course aimed at rectifying a lack of foundational algebra skills among students, according to Harvard’s Director of Introductory Math Brendan A. Kelly. And whatever happened to kindly telling people they’re just not qualified, that there are specific performance standards and everyone must meet them if they want to enroll at America’s most prestigious center of higher education? Sadly, the answers are obvious, aren’t they? |
| Posted by:Grom the Reflective |
| #8 A diminished capacity for abstraction. "If you have three friends and one apple, and you cut the apple into three parts, how much of the apple does each friend get?" "I don't have any friends." |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-09-07 23:48 |
| #7 In Germany maths education has been deteriorating for decades. The problem isn't only that the non-qualified get de facto fraudulent credentials but also that those who could qualify aren't taught the necessary foundations of mathematics that would qualify them to study a maths-affine subject at university level. This might be a problem in the US too. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2024-09-07 19:52 |
| #6 THe national IQ keeps dropping. |
| Posted by: Squinty+Hatfield8204 2024-09-07 15:32 |
| #5 And who produces the teachers and school administrators? Maybe those institutions need some 'attention'. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-09-07 15:17 |
| #4 yer right skid. shows what years and bourbon does to memory |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2024-09-07 14:45 |
| #3 re: #1 Sorry Skid but you can't blame everything on the parents. If they need algebra to get into Hahvahd then high school is where they should have learned it (should have started in middle school) re: #2 Did I miss something isn't 800 a perfect score? Or are you adding the Language & Math together, in which case 800 should barely qualify for crossing the street on your own. |
| Posted by: alanc 2024-09-07 14:20 |
| #2 How about rejecting applicants with an SAT score below 800? |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2024-09-07 12:57 |
| #1 a lack of foundational algebra skills What about the 'a lack of foundational parenting skills'? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-09-07 12:36 |