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You'd probably get more innovation in the US if you funneled more money to the top 50 or so engineering schools and forced them to take on more students. There
by Kephael 8y ago
You'd probably get more innovation in the US if you funneled more money to the top 50 or so engineering schools and forced them to take on more students. There are too many schools with "impacted" majors in worthwhile degree majors. The only thing higher taxes would do is potentially discourage me from running a side business.
Taxes wouldn't even need to be raised, just take the funds from the poor performing universities and colleges and move to a German educational model.
- alkibiades 8y agoi don’t see how some people going to a rank 5 school instead of rank 15 school would drastically change the US. And trust me, look at the endowments of these schools. Outside of some public ones, it’s not a money issue. Harvard could easily 3x their enrollment with their endowment money
- Kephael 8y agoI was not referring to rank 15 -> 5, I meant that outcomes of students attending a rank 2500 school is typically not particularly good. It is literally impossible to enroll in certain majors at many quality schools despite being academically qualified for the major.
- alkibiades 8y agogive them more money and they’ll hire a thousand more diversity administrators and not a single spot will open up in those impacted programs.
- jdhn 8y ago>move to a German educational model Isn't the German model based on assigning people to tracks with very little opportunity to jump out of your track and into another one? Personally, I would hate to be assigned a track that I couldn't move out of if I really wanted to.