Why would anyone pay attention to anything emanating from Hillsdale? Such a paragon of virtue.

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/15/us/scandal-rocks-a-conservative-campus.html

Anonymous wrote:I just read the article and it doesn’t say anything about URMs. With your post you may be inadvertently making the author’s point for him.

Welcome to the world where some people with an axe to grind, will twist and distort anything said by the other side into either a Hitler or Stalin quote

My daughter is a teacher. She was valedictorian in high school. Graduated summa cum laude from both high school and college. National Merit Scholar. Full merit scholarship in college. Master of Education in Applied Behavior Analysis. She has many, many colleagues with similar stats. I doubt any of her parents know how brilliant she is. They just know she is a great teachers with a passion for helping children with autism become their highest and best selves. And she loves her kids so much.

Anonymous wrote:The authors rationale: education majors have lower SATs but higher GPAs than STEM majors.

Now, this ignores or fails to consider a number of factors. For example, the fact that their are many non-education majors besides STEM— no mention of how GPAs stack up against humanities majors, fine arts majors, business majors. It also ignores the fact that pre-med and engineering are weed out environments and grades are intentionally low to force a certain percent of kids out at many colleges. Or, that to pass STEM classes, you must be good at STEM. But you can be a great English teacher without being strong in STEM. So basically, dumb supporting argument.

He does take the opportunity to strongly imply that Jill Biden isn’t that bright.

Jill flunked out of community college in her 20s. Then pursued a bunch of fake degrees later in life as an idle rich housewife of a powerful senator. Then bought her Ed.D. from UDel when Joe was about to enter the White House as VP.

"Turns Out You Can be a “Doctor” Just Like Jill Biden By Taking These Online Courses"
https://www.revolver.news/2020/12/jill-biden-edd-doctorate-delaware-diploma-mill/

Anonymous wrote:Also I want to add the doctoral education degree is definitely watered down compared with other doctoral degrees.
You can do the entire thing online while working full time. No way can you do that with PhDs in other subjects.
And it only takes 3 years or so. Another money maker by universities.

"Watered down"? It is literally bogus. A bogus fake doctorate with zero admissions requirements, the coursework is a joke, nobody vets the dissertation. It's a huge scam because administrators charge the cost of these fake programs to taxpayers and then use the extra fake credentials to steal higher comp from taxpayers.

Anonymous wrote:education majors because these majors are “easy” and “you don’t have to know anything”. He also said that public school teachers are trained in “the dumbest part of the dumbest colleges”. Fact check: 75% of teachers are white, and almost 75% are women.

I'm not going to attack this man, who I don't know, at a college I have never heard of. But I can speak to the classmates at my state school university who became teachers back in the early 90s: With few exemptions, they were the dumbest and laziest students on campus. See also the rampant fake online degrees these dummies pursue on the taxpayers' dime. Don't forget to call your idiot principal and superintendent "doctor" after they buy a bogus Ed.D. with local tax dollars and complete its online coursework on the clock during school hours. And I'm sorry to say literally every single male school administrator I have ever met in a professional capacity was both dumber than a rock and extremely creepy.

Anonymous wrote:I will say that among doctoral programs, EdD's are generally less respected, in that the research requirement is less rigorous (their journals also tend to set a lower bar). This is true of many fields though (including Physical Therapy, Nursing, Management/Policy).

It is all relative.

Isn’t it interesting how these are all women dominated fields…. Hmm… what a coincidence!

Also I want to add the doctoral education degree is definitely watered down compared with other doctoral degrees.
You can do the entire thing online while working full time. No way can you do that with PhDs in other subjects.
And it only takes 3 years or so. Another money maker by universities.

I’m a teacher who majored in a STEM subject and came to teaching later.
I wouldn’t blame the teachers. I have had to take a bunch of graduate education classes and yes, they are not very useful and much easier than my college STEM and humanities classes. I blame the way education is set up in the US. Education departments at Universities are mostly lame and trying to keep themselves in business by rallying for onerous certification requirements for teachers. And university education professors are always touting the next big thing that will transform education and districts lap it up because they are under so much pressure to close the achievement gap. Education in this country is way too political. Instead teachers should be paid more and one of the requirements should be to major in a subject that you want to teach. Followed by a 1 year education masters.

All the administrators you hire are diversity people *which helps with federal requirements that you have a certain number BY COLOR. (There is no such federal requirement).

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/07/05/hillsdale-leaders-comments-teachers-spur-tenn-controversy

My schools valedictorian became a teacher. So many thought she was too clever for that.
She could have become a doctor

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Anonymous wrote:Athletes and Legacies too

100% about athletes. All the top athletes at my T10 school (that's also known for being big with NCAA football & basketball), were one of 3 easy majors: communications, marketing, exercise science.

At my school it was geography.

Colleges have all sorts of bullshit majors for reasons

massive overreach here

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Anonymous wrote:Wait I read your link and I don't see your subject line claim supported: where does it say *URM* become teachers because they are less talented?

Look at the inset text in the first paragraph: He takes aim at diversity efforts in higher education and says people in those position have education degrees because they are “easy” and “you don’t have to know anything”

From the embedded Channel 5 link:

"In colleges, what you hire now is administrators…. Now, because they are appointing all these diversity officers, what are their degrees in? Education. It's easy. You don't have to know anything."

Uh no. It doesn't say anything about URMs. It says Diversity Officers (who by the way, are so often white that I've seen a hilarious meme about paint samples known as "trustworthy whites" being who make up diversity officials) are education majors and as a result, dumb.

Do you folks ever tell the truth. The link says “diversity efforts” and references “public school teachers” as being low performing in the text above and the discussion below. You need to link to a discussion of “diversity officers” because this is not in the linked text.

"diversity efforts" wasn't a quote form the President. Find me the quote where he says recruiting diverse students at schools is a problem due to them being unable to hack.

Everybody all together now:

*white “Christianity” is a cover for white nationalism*

-Christian