When ding dongs mold our youth

As an undergrad, if I wanted to meet the largest collection of dumb asses at the university, I wouldn't go to the football weight room, I would head straight to teacher's college.

Seriously, some of these people were so stupid, I wondered how they got on the premises in the first place...... and that was just the professors.

Being surrounded by such idiots was part of the reason I gave up pursuing an education degree and decided to get a real degree.

Apparently, my experience at UC 25 years ago is not much different than today..............

Which college field of study has the lowest standards and the highest grades -- a magical Lake Wobegon world in which all the students are not just above average but way above average? If you guessed “teaching,” you’d be right.

That’s the conclusion of a new study from the conservative American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, “Grade Inflation for Education Majors and Low Standards for Teachers.”

“Students who take education classes at universities receive significantly higher grades than students who take classes in every other academic discipline,” says the report. “The ... explanation is that the higher grades in education classes are the result of low grading standards"

The study, authored by Corey Koedel, notes that education majors -- the future teachers of America, especially at the grade-school and high-school level -- routinely get top marks in the gut courses that ed majors generally take. And yet they consistently score lower on college entrance exams than students in other disciplines.

It’s an amazing disparity between ability and academic “achievement” that translates in the real world into high performance evaluations and failing schools, especially in urban areas.

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