“cheaper than prison” is not a measure of success
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You completely ignored the point about it being the higher education system that is one of the most powerful engines of upward social mobility in the country, in contrast to trends at private universities.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/18/upshot/some-colleges-have-more-students-from-the-top-1-percent-than-the-bottom-60.html …
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Memes aside, standardized tests are actually a great equalizer and removing them from admissions criteria leads to fewer lower-income students, not more
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I think it’s hard to require SATs this year for obvious reasons. But if it negatively impacts income composition, I feel confident that they’ll bring the SAT back. The state legislature, which is now largely Latino, would demand it if it negatively impacted their constituencies.
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Is it a false choice? CA has one budget every year that it allocates money from. In the 1960s, public higher ed in the state was basically free. Over the following generation, the state, under Deukmejian and Wilson, chose to expand the prison system w initiatives like 3 Strikes.
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Total non-sequitur. I disagree with how the institution is run and its immoral to force me to subsidize it.
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is this the justification for implementing virtual signaling policies in higher education
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