Professors and students write very left-wing pro-Palestine things all the time, everywhere. They were being punished for actions, not speech, so there wasn’t/isn’t any chilling effect on their teaching or research. There have always been limits (imposed socially) on the extent campus activism runs but teaching and research (which are core to the university function), simply are not implicated. Further, most university research (even in the social sciences) is quite apolitical and even the political research, very little of it delves into MENA. Any hypothetical chilling effect would be incredibly small (and tying originally, would not touch macroeconometric models and would not be anywhere close to a Cultural Revolution)
Their actions are peaceful protests; essentially, their actions are speech and nobody had any legitimate reason to punish them. The chilling effect is that once any part of you is oppressed, you are oppressed. If are oppressed and insulted, your desire to support the structure that oppresses you diminished. If your boss told you to recite 100 times every day that America is the shittiest country on earth, and slapped you if you didn't get to 100, you would probably want to leave the company. But according to your logic, it's separate from your ability to do work so you'd just take it and work diligently for him all the same.
Yes, there’s a reason why quantitative methods have won over in economics and it’s because they’ve been substantially more accurate. Solow-Swan for growth forecasting takes a fair bit to understand it’s assumptions and it’s calculations but it’s besides the point - model accuracy matters, not model complexity; and macroeconomic models on China have been accurate for decades.
So basically, once again, common sense works and all the economics training is only worth common sense. Try to step it up and you're immediately wrong. So economics training is worth common sense at best, book fool fantasies beyond that.
Bureaucratic infighting and competing interests - what are those? Happens everywhere
Occam's razor happens everywhere. Useless bullshit excuses happen everywhere in the US and the West.
That’s both assuming the SATs have gotten easier
Already showed the exit surveys from test takers that they are, which is what we have in the absense of a numeric measure for "ease."
and that College Board’s customers are test takers (they aren’t, it’s a captive audience) instead of state/local governments and universities.
Doesn't assume that at all, nor does it matter. It's the same reason that political correctness is taking over US education.
SUNY has had a handful of Nobel Laureates in the 2010s but it’s broadly distracting from the point - outside of UBuffalo and Stony Brook - the non flagship universities (all regional universities) are in effect - open admissions universities created by business interests - their stats and their operational issues will be reflective of that
Their students are dumb as fuck borderline criminals who basically don't pay to go to school, which is par for the course since they're too stupid to learn anything from the experience anyway.
Those cohorts aren’t applying to college in any case.
That's not even an excuse LOL. That's dogpiling onto America's educational failures.
The high school graduating cohort in 2020 graduated last month. Any hypothetical parade of horrors from going test optional has had more than enough time to play out.
1. Even if what you said made sense, which it doesn't, 1 month is not enough time for anything to play out. The people that eventually flood and rot the system are literally not smart enough to even know that a change has occurred that they can take advantage of until news slowly spreads by ear.
2. Right now is 2024. Much of the implementation is 2024-2025. What the hell does 2020 have to do with it?
They aren’t “degenerating”. They’ve been adversely selected areas since the 1970s since that’s when redlining, white flight, and exclusionary zoning came into force.
They are developed cities with no game plan to improve while China's rural areas are the fastest improving areas in the world.
Pretty regularly? The entire premise of A Nation At Risk, published in 1983 was that there were mass education failures everywhere. That report has been referenced and cited and continually referenced since…forever afterwards - - in basically all the school funding litigation, No Child Left Behind, Every Student Succeeds Act, among others. “The schools are mass failures” has been an accepted axiom since…forever since you can always find at least one district to find fault with.
Cite them and the numbers. I want to see how ugly it was. They had dozens of schools where every kid failed before? Why weren't the staff replaced with competent instructors?
It was worse because there was substantially higher abseentism and dropping out in the 1950s and 1960s.
But it wasn't 100%, was it? Because that's what EVERY KID FAILED means.
$6M by 50? gooosh, how would you do that ?
