Posted by me on 9/29/2009, 5:36 pm, in reply to "Re: LA Times: "Cal State students, it's time to stand up""
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That's a good idea. Comm College for remedial classes.
I also think it's high time to re-invent college. Sitting in boring lectures where the professor talks at a bunch of students, especially the largest classes is old school. Use the Internet more. I learn more in a day now on the Internet than I did in a semester in a class. (only a slight exaggeration.) But seriously, life changes occur so fast and often now the Internet is a self-teaching device that is far better. Some of the traditional core classes can be done better with annimated teaching videos on-line. I used to have a psych professor who lit his pipe constantly. We counted 65 lights in a 55 minute class.
Re-think, re-invent, make more relevant... save money.
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: I love the line where they quote the Cal State
: LA administrator as complaining that
: students can't get into remedial classes.
: Here is a novel idea, eliminate remedial
: classes, and raise the standards to
: eliminate freshmen who need remedial
: classes, let them start out and take those
: classes in Comm. colleges. This would help
: aleviate the budget problems; further, it
: might give HS students an extra bit of
: incentive to pay attention in class.
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: Today's L.A. Times
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: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-tobar29-2009sep29,0,3374430.column
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: Budget cuts are taking away the right to an
: inexpensive public education, depriving many
: of the right to move up.
: By Hector Tobar
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: September 29, 2009
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: Faculty, staff and students at Cal State
: Long Beach stage a mock funeral for higher
: education last week.
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: Read the rest at the link above.
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