Category: Education
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Grade inflation has made GPA meaningless above the high school level
When most students get A’s, GPA stops measuring anything. Here’s how grade inflation broke the signal and what employers and grad schools use instead.
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Tenure protects bad teachers more than free speech
Tenure was designed to protect academic freedom, but in K-12 and parts of higher education it now mostly insulates underperformers from accountability.
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The MBA is the most overrated credential in America
MBA programs charge six figures and promise transformation. The data on outcomes, salary lift, and signaling value tells a more sober story.
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Parent PLUS loans are predatory and the government is the predator
Parent PLUS loans approve almost anyone, charge punishing rates, and trap families in debt they can’t discharge. Call it what it is: federal predatory lending.
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Legacy admissions are affirmative action for the rich and we keep pretending otherwise
Legacy admissions give a measurable advantage to children of alumni at elite colleges. The defense is increasingly hard to take seriously after recent court rulings.
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Tenure is the only thing keeping universities from becoming corporations
Tenure is criticized from every direction, but it remains the structural feature that keeps universities from operating purely as market entities.
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The everyone should go to college mandate did more damage than good
Pushing every student toward a four-year degree inflated tuition, hollowed out trades, and saddled non-completers with debt. The data is hard to ignore.
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Degrees Don’t Guarantee Career Success
A bachelor’s degree still pays on average, but credential inflation, field of study, and skill development matter more than the diploma itself for career outcomes.
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College rankings are a scam universities pay to participate in
U.S. News rankings shape billions in tuition decisions, but the methodology rewards spending and gameable inputs. Several elite schools have already pulled out.
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Schools have outsourced parenting to mental health professionals
Schools increasingly lean on counselors and therapists to handle behaviors that used to fall to parents. The shift has costs nobody is honestly counting.