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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is the whining and blaming still happening?

Who is at fault:
-professors
-students
-technology
-politicians/gov't
-AOs
-HS, colleges

Did I miss anyone/anything else?  It's everyone's fault except for your own damn selves, of course![/quote]

I disagree. Public and most parochial schools have dumbed down K-12 education.

1. Teaching as a profession sucks and know attracts only lower performing individuals. It isn’t just the low salaries but going into teaching is a dead end street. You can’t pivot the way you can in business or other industries. Your only option out of the classroom is administration but you have no skills to run an organization. We are expecting C students from bottom tier state schools to somehow grasp the rigor needed to excel at top higher education instructions. It’s like having swim team coaches who can’t themselves get across the pool without water wings.

2. For whatever reason educational graduate programs do not effectively teach math, statistics or data science. Ed admins with graduate degrees are constantly collecting more and more data and then not even able to represent or analyze it. Badly constructed and error riddled excel spreadsheets dominate school administrations. Teachers are tasked with collecting more and more data, often with zero quality control to throw into their salad spinner.

3. Class sizes are too large. Teachers no longer give feedback or use the editorial process to teach writing. Books are no longer given or assigned to save money, Ed tech has been horribly implemented to benefit the employees over the students.

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