Christopher D. Green wrote:
Beth Benoit wrote:
Wow.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/12/21/my_lazy_american_students/?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed1
I got an interesting lesson in this issue from my son -- prior to
Beth's post. He was home from a pretty-decent engineering school
and he was feeling discouraged. I asked him what was the problem
and he said that the school had turned into a "diploma mill." I
asked him what he meant by this term since this is a well-known
institution. He said that foreign students were coming to the US
to get a US-institution-degree because that was the gateway to
advancement in their countries. He was discouraged that they
were focused on what to do to get the grade alone and would never
disagree/take an independent stand if it might affect their grade.
So, I will point out that we may have a correlation between
American-citizenship and GPA but, like all correlations, the
causality is murky often.
Ken
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Professor
Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
USA
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