Posted on 07/21/2017 5:18:52 AM PDT by C19fan
To “solve the problem of meritocracy,” one professor argues that elite universities should use an “admissions lottery” to select which students they accept.
Joseph Soares, who teaches in the department of Sociology at Wake Forest University, advanced the claim in an article for the Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies, in which he argues that college entrance exams like the SAT and ACT “are predictively weak and biased, stigmatizing minorities as underperformers” and should therefore be disregarded.
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Hey Professor, I’ve got a better idea, shutter all the colleges, fire all the professors, and just give kids a college degree when they graduate high school. Not much difference and a lot cheaper. And watch the academics search for jobs in the real world. It could be a reality show.
Great idea! According to the author we should let the smartest miss college because they did not get a good lottery number, and lets let the stupidest design the next generation of computers!
BRILLIANT!
They clearly have already done this for writers...
This is the dumbest thing I’ve read in the last five minutes
What an idiot
But then he probably believes in a guaranteed base income
Now we’ve got free education for stupid people.
“and we’ve got this guy...NotSure...”
College professors—is there anything they don’t know? /s
Just the kind of clap trap you would expect from a SOCIOLOGY teacher
Before moving to Wake Forest, Dr. Soares taught as a Lecturer at Harvard and was an assistant and associate professor of Sociology at Yale. For most of 2008, he was a member of the national education policy group for Barack Obama’s campaign for US President.
The only professors who advocate this drivel are those who just hand out As like candy. Those of us who actually TRY to educate the kids dread letting anyone in. Makes our jobs a lot harder and doesn’t benefit the [real] students either.
No. Admissions must be based on merit and merit alone. Jail time for asking race/sex/religion on an application, or using it in decisions.
The only problem with meritocracy is that the cherished and protected victim class doesn’t have enough merit when objective standards are applied. These people can’t deal with the real world so they have to make up a fantasy in which their “feelings” trump facts, logic and reality.
why stop there? lets do this for med school and pilot training as well.....
And civil engineering!
for equality of opportunity, we need to have surgery performed on kids with superior intelligence to make them dumber
At last he has some good sense.
The state of Texas also takes “race” and other factors AWAY from the admissions gatekeepers. It offers entrance to its many state colleges to Texas students who graduate from their schools in the top ten percent of their class.
That’s not actually “blowing up” meritocracy as much as it is accepting of the merit earned by the students’ grade-point standing upon graduation of high school.
http://www.collegeforalltexans.com/index.cfm?objectid=24937C2A-D8B0-34EB-1FC5AF875A28C616
He wants the colleges to choose randomly among the top 10% of students attending each high school, which in some schools is achieved by being able to read the diploma.
Interestingly, the push to use standardized tests was to eliminate discrimination and give students from non-elite high schools and prep schools the chance to attend college. I guess meritocracy gives the "wrong" results.
Why would the prof suggest such a thing since minorities already get a preference?
It speeds up the death of these liberal institutions.
They should do the same thing for professors. It is discriminatory to require a degree to teach. Such jobs should be open to all minorities...and only minorities.
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