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I think the author buried the lead... Let's say 40% passed. At 7.5% of the cost of normal tuition, I would say this is a net positive. The students who passed h
by 0003 13y ago
I think the author buried the lead... Let's say 40% passed. At 7.5% of the cost of normal tuition, I would say this is a net positive. The students who passed have course credits and saved over 93% what they normally would have spent and the students who did not pass were able to see if college is right for them, without being destroyed by debt.
Not that the author's views are without merit, but this feels like it was warped into a story about greedy university administrators and profit-blind venture capitalists.
- ihnorton 13y agoAlso buried (on the second page) was this nugget: The school explains the courses' high failure rate by saying the students were "an atypical sample" — half were San Jose State students who had already failed the courses once. The other half were students from an underprivileged Oakland high school. Many of the latter had no computer access, a fact the school only discovered three weeks into the online term.
- hmsimha 13y agoThis should be the first comment on this page.