Charles Murray is right! What is needed are high quality, certifiable, and reliable credentialing exams.
On the college level, little work that is done in the U.S. specifically needs a B.S. degree. Employers demand it because it is one way to avoid the “racist” charge and to determine if the applicant has the literacy, numeracy, IQ, personal discipline, and focus to do the job. Credentialing exams might help break this high education log jam of degrees.
Why not start credentialing exams in first grade? If the child **proves** with a credentialing exam that he has mastered a specific subject, he would immediately move on ( using Khan or other system) to the next level.
Imagine how many **years** sooner many children could be finishing high school and moving on to college level work. For the young person to have and extra 2 to 6 years in his career adds up to a quarter of a million to perhaps a million or ** more** for that young person over a lifetime.
We could start immediately. Any child of any age who passes the GED or similar exam should be awarded a standard high school diploma from their local government indoctrination camp ( oops! “school”). They would then be free to move onto college courses or to other post high school career training.
By the way...All government teachers should be required to take the GED. If they fail ( most would fail the math section) they should be fired. And...All government teachers should take Calculus I right along with the engineers, math, and science majors. Do most need Calculus I? No, they don't, but it would assure that they have a high enough IQ to merit sitting in front of a class of prisoners ( Oops! “students”).
We already have Khan Academy on the Internet. The one thing lacking with Khan are a private system of credentialing exams, so that the student can **prove** to others that he has mastered the material.”””
No matter what school you get your accounting degree or law degree from, you must show up in a central location for the Bar exam or the CPA exam each state adheres to.
There is no reason why final exams every semester done online could not also be done the same way.
IF you are not commuting 5-6 days a week to a ‘facility’ or paying to live in a dorm, you can afford to travel 2 times a year to take an exam at a central location & prove that you are ready to advance to the next classes.