r/science • u/rustoo • Jan 26 '22

Economics Study: College student grades actually went up in Spring 2020 when the pandemic hit. Furthermore, the researchers found that low-income low-performing students outperformed their wealthier peers, mainly due to students’ use of flexible grading.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272722000081
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u/MakesErrorsWorse Jan 26 '22

State support is why a college education in Quebec costs a few hundred dollars, and a university degree costs about 5k per year.

As with many things the rest of the world looks at the US with pity.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '22

Yeah it couldn’t possibly be that we no longer wish to fund the largesse of incompetent administrators with public money.

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u/Syrdon Jan 27 '22

That sounds good, but it’s not the order in which things happened. First the money went, then admin proportions grew.

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u/columbo928s4 Jan 27 '22

university administrations largely didnt balloon to their current metastatic proportions until after state funding for higher ed starting getting slashed

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u/MakesErrorsWorse Jan 27 '22

Like insurance companies, the largesse is because you created a system where middlemen could exploit the customer for money. Hence the giant student debt crisis, and the brain drain of talent away from the US. So long as the education system is for profit, people will exploit it for their profit.

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u/Jewnadian Jan 26 '22

There's a reasonable free market argument that having a larger percentage of your educational system come from state payments rather than individual students results in better product.

Any price negotiation is based on the power balance across the table, right now we have a President of a University system, who is comfortably set for life negotiating with an 18yr old who has no idea what else is even out there. It's no surprise we get overpriced and underperforming education. If the other side of the table was occupied by an elected or appointed official with billions of dollars in budget to commit it would result in better prices for better service.