Byron Auguste: belief

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…No, we can measure a bunch of things more. You don’t simply want more discretion for admissions officers, right? Yes, but first of all, the college and vocational should not be nearly as separate as they are. We should think about vocational as applied learning, and there should be way more of it in college. I think Northeastern University, for example, has done a very good job of that. I think college should also be much more seen as skills acquisition along the way. You think of Western Governors University, which is an example of filling a market. It’s a nonprofit, but it’s been growing by I think 10 percent, 15 percent a year since it was founded. And it’s competency-based education, where every level of learning can be validated. In principle, the bachelor’s degree is the ribbon and bow at the end of the process. Genomics doesn’t seem to work yet practically, but should we use it when it does? Wouldn’t it be a good way to identify people who couldn’t go to college but are very talented?…

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