I didn't know this trend was going on, that such a high percentage of students were registering as disabled:
"Soon, many of these schools "may have more students receiving [disability] accommodations than not, a scenario that would have seemed absurd just a decade ago."
As students and their parents have recognized the benefits of claiming disability—extended time on tests, housing accommodations, etc—the rates of disability at colleges, and especially at elite colleges, has exploded.
America used to stigmatize disability too severely. Now elite institutions reward it too liberally.
It simply does not make any sense to have a policy that declares half of the students at Stanford cognitively disabled and in need of accommodations."
@HymanKaplan
Trump should name Kaplan the Math Czar and get this fixed:
"The number of Gen Z college freshmen who are entering universities without high school math skills is skyrocketing — as SAT scores are plummeting, a stunning new report has found.
Even more shocking — many of the students can’t even do middle-school level math, meaning their skills are fifth grade or below.
Experts say this phenomenon, combined with steadily rising high school graduate rates, show that the country is suffering a massive grade inflation problem."
The University of California San Diego, for instance, has reported a staggering 30-fold increase in the number of students unable to do basic arithmetic over the last five years."
But one factor cited was also grade-inflation, a practice widespread across the country where teachers and administrators arbitrarily boost students’ grades to meet state or federal graduation rate requirements in order to receive funding."
