Good short thread on accountability in higher edhttps://twitter.com/ryanallred/status/1143553311884242944 …
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The goal should be to encourage people — young and old — to attend college **when they want to study or do something for which a college program is the most sensible option.** Far too many college students have no idea why they're there, aside from "I graduated high school."
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We've enshrined the idea that college is the place for young people to figure out what they like. But:
most undergrad courses aren't at all suited to that
the alarmingly bloated costs to both students & taxpayers are very hard to justify if students aren't even interested
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@LambdaSchool assigns substantial pre-course work. Presumably, this gives prospective students a chance to see whether they even *like* coding, and gives Lambda an opportunity to evaluate whether they can get each student to hireability in a relatively short time.Show this thread -
In an ideal world, K-12 schools would help kids explore their interests w/ a broader array of subjects, problems & projects + opportunities for depth. In a tolerable world, there'd at least be plenty of affordable "gap year" programs for that. What we have now is not tolerable.
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Seems like there could be a place for a "pre freshman semester" where you just try out different majors for a week each to see what they're like.
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A while back, I somewhat tongue in cheek proposed that we ban most people from going to college: http://stuartbuck.blogspot.com/2006/04/credentialism.html?m=1 …
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