How America's universities became debt factories

Re:How America's universities became debt factories by pokerface_86 on Monday September 16, 2024 @01:29PM (#41558395)

no one actually good at math is going to become a K-5 teacher, they’re gonna get paid, so it creates a doom loop where each new generation of primary school teachers get progressively shittier at math.

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Re:How America's universities became debt factories by WalterBright on Monday September 16, 2024 @09:54PM (#41563221)

There's a reason why 3rd grade "teachers' edition" textbooks for math exist. It's because those teachers need an answer key for 100+200.

As for "good at math", it's hard to see how a teacher with a degree can fail at 3rd grade arithmetic.

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Re:How America's universities became debt factories by pokerface_86 on Monday September 16, 2024 @09:59PM (#41563255)

i have literally witnessed students in a senior level discrete math class struggle with simple algebraic operations. they were on the math education track.

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