Before we can say what "best/optimal" means, we have to define the purpose of the system. Let's never do that in a blanket way. Trying too hard to define a single purpose and treat the system as a whole leads awry. Let's accept some honest institutions and some for status profit.
A deadly article on college admissions scams from Caitlin Flanagan. Is it so difficult to understand from all of this that objective tests, honestly administered, are the best buttress we have against the corruption in selection?http://j.mp/2FNao9i
-
-
-
Making that distinction plain is key. Let people choose their values out in the open. Let some pay for school. Let others earn rungs on a ladder that signals what they earn. Even some people who bribe their way in will eventually earn something, too. But at least we can know.
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
Slavoj Žižek : "Only something like religion can make good people do bad things"
@Slavojiek -
If he said that seriously, that statement is patently false. We have plenty of examples to refute that statement.
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
If tests are so gr8, why do so many schools (particularly schools in places with many upper middle class str8 white bigots, just like the HS I went to) have courses on how to do well on the SATs and run up the score against poor minorities from schools with no SAT courses?!
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Cheaters never win and winners never cheat!
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
This Tweet is unavailable.
-
I was asking myself the same thing, then remembered you can bribe people to write papers for you, or hire expensive tutors, or require your teachers to inflate grades to make the school look better. I'm sure the corruption does not end with the admission.
- Show replies
-
-
-
."..expecting adolescents to do five hours of homework on top of meeting time-consuming athletic demands is, in all but exceptional cases, child abuse. " It is difficult to understand what dimension of performance is being measured in these circumstances
-
Pretty sure shes kidding there. Kind of a tongue in cheek writing style by my read of it
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.