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To: i-node who wrote (50401)

1/2/2018 12:28:11 PM

From: koan

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Sure use Arkansas ranked 41st in the nation and got a C-. Like most southern states they do not value education as much as more liberal states like California.

Report ranks Arkansas 41st in education - Arkansas News Bureau

www.arkansasnews.com/article/20160106/NEWS/301069972

Jan 6, 2016 - LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas' public education system is ranked 41st in the nation inEducation Week's 20th annual Quality Counts report, down from 36th a year ago. The report, released Thursday but provided in advance to reporters, gives Arkansas an overall grade of C-minus, the same grade as last year.

Governments should be funding public education for everyone and when liberals get back in power we will do it. The advanced western democracies mostly offer free education to their populace. That is the wave of the future.

Attending an institution is much better because of the synergistic benefits of class, cafeteria and general discussion with other students learning the same stuff. Study programs with other students, etc.

Nothing will ever replace the universities. On line education is often not over seen and scams like Trump university are pervasive.

There is not good oversight of private schools, no democracy at work.

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>> Colleges generally teach and offer all the humanities: sociology, psychology, philosophy, history, literature, economics, etc.

The focus is now on STEM, and these courses are rolling out in a big way online. The days of state universities all over the place duplicating the same material over and and over at exorbitant fees are coming to an end.

edx.org

coursera.org

udemy.com (for information seekers who don't care about certificates).

Ultimately, this is university for the masses as the student loan programs collapses.

It is one more case of the Internet revolutionizing an entire field, and of government destroying one. We will end up with the Ivies and a few major university brands surviving, most others with be niche universities or simply closed.

Better education, little if any role for government, and without the bullshit. STEM majors do not have to study Western Civilization. They can study topics that matter to them. After all, they have error correction.

And yes, there are online alternatives for younger students, too:

arkansas.connectionsacademy.com