Top colleges should select randomly from a pool of ‘good enough’ (2005)

Re:Top colleges should select randomly from a pool of ‘good ... by MagnumOpus on Monday August 24, 2020 @05:27AM (#24258872)

> There are often situations where students just performed better on a standardized test because they could afford a couch or had better teachers and not because they are “smarter” or more capable

The solution is to make sure that students have good teachers and a couch (??) to become more capable, and not to waste limited elite teaching resource on less-capable students.

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Re:Top colleges should select randomly from a pool of ‘good ... by afarrell on Monday August 24, 2020 @06:11AM (#24259153)

No university can boil the ocean.

In order to make sure that students have good teachers, one challenge is making it possible for people from impoverished communities to be able to get high-quality schooling so that they can either become teachers or earn money that can go back into those communities.

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Re:Top colleges should select randomly from a pool of ‘good ... by intended on Monday August 24, 2020 @05:39AM (#24258962)

Impoverished regions are always going to have lower than average outcomes.

If you could afford enough teachers, with good training, on a impoverished region tax base, it would be revolutionary.

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