This is deliberate to ready the US to turn into a third world country.
Ah yes, our future aircraft and structural engineers. What a diverse group they will be.
Ha ha, what a joke.
“Some ideas are so stupid, only an intellectual would believe them”
Remind me to not ride on any vehicles, drive over any roads or bridges, go into any buildings. etc. engineered by future CalTech grads.
Nothing will change.
Its a PR gesture, so they can claim to be inclusive, non-racist, seeking diversity, or whatever bulls*** PC lingo they are spewing at the moment.
They’ll tell you you don’t need calculus and physics to apply to Cal-Tech, BUT when your application arrives without those things, they’ll drop it to the bottom of the pile
Why not? They’re only turning out a bunch of ‘woke’ dumbshitz these days anyway.
Well, if a lot of Chicoms enroll, and do not learn methods they could use to attack us, perhaps this will be a good thing. The USA citizens who want to keep America safe could enroll at Hillsdale College if they haven’t already had the necessary courses.
Heck, if any Chicoms actually enroll and spend 4 years at Hillsdale, they might return to China and spy for the USA.
Many schools are no longer teaching the hard sciences and math. The geniuses already know it, and computers and calculators do the grunt work anyway, not people.
A 5 on the AP Exam is actually even better than a solid SAT score for those subjects.
All of those courses could be taken in Junior College.
Sounds like good news. Many homeschooled students take alternate routes, such as AP tests. I know many who did well in college STEM majors and went on to earn graduate degrees.
if an aptitude towards STEM isn’t required for STEM then what’s the point?
political leanings are all they’re looking to admit and promote.
this is how they gain and maintain power.
The problem is that this shit won’t stop at allowing Khan Academy to replace a few courses on a transcript. The “logic” behind this decision is cancerous. The most qualified applicants will still be those with math/science Olympiad medals, science fair winners, people who have conducted research at their local university, etc. What then? Will the standards be changed because not everyone has parents that care enough to give their children those opportunities? You can bet your ass they will if these people continue to have influence.
BTW, a truly motivated student who didn’t have access to those classes at their high school would take them from the local community college. In fact, many applicants to CalTech, MIT, etc. take courses beyond single variable calc through such schools. The options are already there. There’s just a certain community that doesn’t push its children and we all know what that community is.
So the smart kids will be channeled to Khan school. I wonder what Captain Kirk will have to say about that.
I am a pharmacist now retired. If my university did not require me to take, chem, physics, calculus, bio, zoology, etc. would you trust me as your pharmacist?
Drops calculus, chemistry and physics requirements.
Sure Sally it’s okay to use Ajax with bleach when you clean things.
bttt
The article sounds positive, so I don’t understand the concern here.
Caltech isn’t only recommending Khan Academy. It’s requiring Schoolhouse.world certification.
University of Chicago also accepts credit from Schoolhouse.world.
The same way universities have been accepting credit from other “free” online course websites, like Coursera.
What Caltech is doing isn’t different from what other universities have been doing.
Many of you are hung up on words like “equity.” It’s just the newest buzzword people throw around. Ignore it.
With this change at Caltech, homeschoolers can earn credit through Schoolhouse.world.
You can pull your kids out of public school, and your kids can earn credit through “free” online courses.
This is good news for people who want to break away from public school.
Sources:
https://coda.io/@shw/caltech-course-requirements
https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/files/documents/schoolhouse-certification.pdf
https://www.admissions.caltech.edu/apply/first-year-applicants/homeschooled-applicants
I can understand not teaching calculus at some high schools as it’s more advanced math than the regular curriculum, but physics and chemistry? Do they just skip science class for three of the four years? What else would they possible teach? Three years of biology?