Keith.
We don't need a "fair playing field" in the universities. We need the best scholars without regard to race, or skin color, or anything else but their capacity most effectively to use the university resources.
Playing with test scores and suchlike is road to disaster.
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"You" will not have a fair playing field at the universities so long as the school has asymmetrical power to hurt the student. I have little hope of a student revolution.
Students need to be financially independent, so that they can vote with their feet.
There was a PBS show on Thomas Jefferson, which said he conceived the University to be exactly this way: The university would draw great scholars from around the world. The school would not "grant" degrees. Students would come because they wanted to learn there, and they would leave when they no longer felt that was the best use of their time. --Does this sound like YOUR education? I did get a little taste of it, so I now know a bit of what is possible, and I recognize more than a bit of what should never have come into existence, and which, having had the misfortune to do that, it should go back swiftly whence it came.
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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