We know many of the arguments about college rankings and the world’s obsession with going to a highly ranked school, but Bill Gates points out another broken part of the system. The feedback loop is messed up. Good colleges attract smarter students and thus produce smarter graduates regardless of what happens in the classroom. The schools aren’t graded by how they teach but how they attract and thus the actions in the classroom don’t matter much in the system.
Read more by Luisa Kroll at Forbes on this observation.
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