D.C. Students Being Paid to Attend Summer School
Cincinnati High School Paying Students To Come To School and behave.
Already seen this on the local high school level (my wife is a teacher). There are some teachers who fill out the tests because they know the students won't or can't.
There is a subset of our culture that not only doesn't value education, but looks at it as a bad thing. If the parents aren't going to push for it, the kids won't.
UT hates white people. FU UT!
Boosting graduation rates? What bonehead thought that was a good idea? American education needs more rigorous standards, not incentives to water-down requirements. If the administration is getting bonuses for boosting graduation rates, you can bet your bottom dollar that will translate into pressure on faculty not to fail students (or give them grades lower than that required for the given course to count in their major), and into more money being diverted from the actual purposes of a university — research and education, yes in that order — to yet more administrative positions running social programs for the ostensible purposes of “academic support” and “boosting retention”. (And as I have noted before, it is administrative bloat, not faculty salaries or expansion of faculty numbers, that is driving the rapid increase in tuition.)
I know lots of FReepers hate the professoriate due to its leftward tilt (examples like Prof. Niall Ferguson and the selection of professor-FReepers like yours truly, mostly in the sciences, notwithstanding), but universities function better when they are run by their faculty, not legislators (or regents) who are clueless about both the nature of a university and its day-to-day operations, and have administrators who answer to their faculty, not the other way around.