Here's one reason the Dems think they can succeed.

[jgarden]

QS World University Rankings 2020

# RANK	UNIVERSITY	LOCATION
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States
2	Stanford University	United States
3	Harvard University	United States
4	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
5	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States
6	ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology	Switzerland
7	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
8	UCL	United Kingdom
9	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
10	University of Chicago	United States
=11	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)	Singapore
=11	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore
13	Princeton University	United States
14	Cornell University	United States
15	University of Pennsylvania	United States
16	Tsinghua University	China (Mainland)
17	Yale University	United States
=18	Columbia University	United States
=18	EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne	Switzerland
20	The University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
21	University of Michigan	United States
=22	Peking University	China (Mainland)
=22	The University of Tokyo	Japan
24	Johns Hopkins University	United States
=25	Duke University	United States

America has 4% of the world's population and therefore should be expected to have only 1 ranked university in the top 25!

Instead, it has 13 of the world's top ranked universities - including 4 of the top 5!

The order may vary from year to year and depending on the criteria, but the names of the institutions in the top 25 remain relatively stable.

If the Democrats are responsible for the current state of higher education in America, as the OP asserts, then based on international comparisons it should be considered as a success story

 

[ok doser]

America has 4% of the world's population and therefore should be expected to have only 1 ranked university in the top 25!

that seems fallacious to me - why would you expect academic excellence to be tied to population?

I would think it would be more closely tied to GDP or average net wealth, considering how expensive a top ranked university is to run. Both of my parents and grandfathers were graduates of one of those listed, btw.

... If the Democrats are responsible for the current state of higher education in America, as the OP asserts ...

no, that's not what it asserts

try again

 

[jgarden]

that seems fallacious to me - why would you expect academic excellence to be tied to population?

I would think it would be more closely tied to GDP or average net wealth, considering how expensive a top ranked university is to run. Both of my parents and grandfathers were graduates of one of those listed, btw.

Median and mean wealth per adult, in US dollars. Large areas.
Initially in rank order by median wealth .
Region Median wealth
per adult.
US dollars Mean wealth
per adult.
US dollar

Switzerland 227,891 564,653 Australia 181,361 386,058 Iceland 165,961 380,868 Hong Kong 146,887 489,258 Luxembourg 139,789 358,003 Belgium 117,093 246,135 New Zealand 116,433 304,124 Japan 110,408 238,104 Canada 107,004 294,255 Ireland 104,842 272,310 France 101,942 276,121 United Kingdom 97,452 280,049 Singapore 96,967 297,873 Spain 95,360 207,531 Austria 94,070 274,919 Ita 91,889 234,139 Malta 76,016 143,566 South Korea 72,198 175,015 Norway 70,627 267,348 Taiwan 70,191 210,525 Qa 69,671 147,745 United States 65,904 432,365 Denmark 58,784 284,022 Israel 58,066 196,568 Finland 55,532 183,124

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...alth_per_adult

Given the marked discrepancy between MEAN and MEDIAN wealth for the United States, the later is the more accurate indicator of the distribution of private wealth given that it counters the influence of a disproportionate amount of private wealth controlled by the 1%!

1) The 11 countries with the greatest median wealth per adult account for only 3 of its top universities with none in the top 5!

2) The United Kingdom which ranks 12th in median wealth has 5 of the top 25 universities, including 4 in the top 10!

3) The Unites States that ranks that ranks 22nd in median wealth has 13 universities in the top 25, including 4 of the top 10!

no, that's not what it asserts

try again

The title of the thread "Here's one reason the Dems think they can succeed" attempts to hold the Democrats responsible for the current state of higher education - "ok dosier" is merely parroting the Trump game plan whereby one only takes responsibility for successes!

 

[ok doser]

The title of the thread "Here's one reason the Dems think they can succeed" attempts to hold the Democrats responsible for the current state of higher education ...

Nope - read it again

 

[jgarden]

I've posted a few articles written by Walter E. Williams which he publishes on his mailing list, Something to Think About. This one is titled, Fraud in Higher Education. He makes a solid case with his argument that our educational system is a fraud on the American public. A very destructive fraud at that.

The OP bases his argument that "our educational system is a fraud on the American public" based on the article titled "Fraud in Higher Education!" where the author concludes that "the fact that unscrupulous parents paid millions for special favors to enroll their children pales in comparison to the poor educational outcomes, not to mention the gross indoctrination by young people by leftist professors."

The author also bemoans "grade inflation" in American education and then proceeds to contradict himself by citing that tin 1940 where 15% of all grades in the nation's top universities were A's had fallen to A-'s by 2018 as a decline in standards!

 

[ok doser]

The author also bemoans "grade inflation" in American education and then proceeds to contradict himself by citing that tin 1940 where 15% of all grades in the nation's top universities were A's had fallen to A-'s by 2018 as a decline in standards!

nope

try again

 

[Ktoyou]

College is supposed to delay adolescence, keeping the mind free from judgement. Then, one has to grow up sometime,:sheep: