On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Robert Naiman <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think this raises legitimate concerns but I don't think the answer to > those concerns is to oppose Obama's proposal outright. I think the answer > is to insist that the standards for the program should be as good as the > first two years at the flagship state university. > Isn't that sort of assumed? Take this quote from the article: "In my opinion, TN Promise is a perfect example for taking money away from high quality education (UofM, in this case), and use the extra funds to invest in low quality education (community colleges)." It screams elitism to me to equate "community college" with "low quality". I mean what is the basis for this judgment? The article does say that community colleges use a higher proportion of adjunct teachers, but while there are lots of things wrong with relying on adjunct labor, are we really arguing here that adjunct teachers = inferior education? Now I can understand someone from say, Harvard, making this kind of argument, but the University of Memphis?? -raghu.
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