The College Board is planning to assign A SOCIOECONOMIC INDEX to students who take the SAT test. So what is an"adversity score" and what do young people think of the idea? Image: GettyThe progressive Democratic presidential candidates mean well when they say they want to make a college education an entitlement. They believe that nothing but good can result from giving children from low-income families the opportunity to attend college.
But they are mistaken. When students realize that they will get into college no matter what they learn in grade school or high school, they will have no incentive to forgo activities that are more fun than attending school, listening to teachers, and doing homework.
opinion It is human nature that if the skin one has in the game is non existent, or minimal then expect less focus. There is nothing to lose. Maybe not 100%, but enough to make it an untenable idea.
opinion while not without merit, the reasoning that free college will torpedo preparation and achievement fails to acknowledge that the current cost of college education already disincentivizes academic achievement of some students with fine ability, but without the means.
opinion What about free public high school until you are actually qualified to enter college? What about stopping all public subsidies for unqualified people to attend college?
opinion Yes. We need different routes for people. The country can only take so many “Women’s Studies” majors.
opinion Kids must study harder and/or get a tutor. “free” things usually aren’t work having. The generation of getting a trophy for showing up is stupid.
opinion Only in america, is a system adopted by most European countries seen as a failure.
opinion The US needs more Congressional appointees who know what is in the Constitution and how to follow it!
opinion The author focused on the “for all” part rather than the “free college” part. He argues that letting anyone in is a bad idea. His main example is NYC pi pic colleges that used to let only a few select students in BUT NO TUITION.
opinion If you want better academic preparation, wouldn't a free college system (with government subsidizing students) targeting STEM fields be motivational enough for students to put their efforts in key areas that would help US and them succeed? Win/win for now and future.
opinion I would still support low-cost college but there’s no doubt that what we really need is much better academic preparation starting with preschool. We are failing our children.
opinion I don’t understand the premise of this article (and I went to college). Is Free Tuition a bad idea because our current education system is failing students & they aren’t ready for college? Can’t we revamp our education system in the lower grades & still have low tuition? Warren
opinion Or maybe it’s about time to evaluate whether college successfully instills any transferable real-world skills whatsoever. That simple consideration would deem the entire notion of “free college” or any college for that matter, pointless.
opinion This article is about the past failure of open admissions (letting anyone in regardless of academic achievement), not “free college”.
opinion Percentage of people who want / need free college who read the WSJ? Is a negative % possible?
opinion Free college and abatement of debt obligations does not fix the core problem... graduating with a degree in an obscure subject or not challenging students to think critically as well as creating a homogeneous environment is the problem... they are not prepared for the real world
opinion Hey I’m super prepared for college but also super broke because I was poor growing up. So I will work at a supermarket and take out super loans to be super miserable and besuper exhausted during school and now it’s time to pay back the loans. What a life. Not a binary choice
opinion Need website aggregator of starting jobs in the last 10 yrs, with a % held by full 4 yr degree, by degree, with 5 yr avg salaries, by state. Take 1 school day in 8th grade dedicated to developing a plan. Show trades v degree-req’d jobs
opinion So lower taxes are OK, but lower tuition fees are not.
opinion Maybe we need to let teachers do their jobs.
opinion You can’t guarantee results
opinion Are you comparing the world as it was 50 years ago? It's like saying that man loves to live in caves!
opinion Move education back to the states. Let the states keep their tax payers money and invest how their residents choose
opinion Most of the western countries have both...and let the USA far behind them
opinion Except it’s still unaffordable. Still putting students in debt or only those from wealthy families. Pretty hollow reasoning.
opinion It’s not either/or. We need better academic standards K-12 AND more affordable (even free) college/trade school.
opinion The op-ed seems entirely based on the false notion that free tuition is the same as saying everyone is qualified for or should go to college. You can have free tuition and still have admissions standards. I don't know of any Democratic candidate who thinks otherwise.
opinion Oh my god the argument he opens with is “if you promise kids college they’ll have too much fun before college?”
opinion College is a scam! Trade schools & technical colleges would be sufficient these days. Universities expanding are like Books-A-Million popping up on every street corner like Starbucks. Totally preposterous considering technology is delivering the goods cheaper & more efficiently.
opinion Why not both?
opinion BS.
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