For less than 1/3rd of what California pays for its incarceration system, the @uofcalifornia system’s schools are the top in the country in terms of % of students from low-income households.https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/upshot/californias-university-system-an-upward-mobility-machine.html …
-
-
separate from the question of whether elitist top-down social planning is the point of college, nothing you’ve cited is relevant to the original point of mine that *you* completely ignored: with standards these low the degrees will be worthless. your equalization is canceled.
-
If the American dream is upward socioeconomic mobility, public universities are a major part of that. When you defund public education, you’re saying kids like these don’t deserve opportunity.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/us/university-california-merced-latino-students.html …
- 5 more replies
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.