Saturday, May 26, 2007
Reading the Future
The California education/schools system and the California prison system are my two favorite examples of important large-scale social operations that are critical to the long-term well-being of our state and our society—and which are so completely broken, screwed-up and straight-jacketed by bureaucracies, unions, rules, tradition and politics that it is difficult to imagine how they will ever be fixed or even improved. For one slant on one aspect of one part of one of the problems, see this LA Times article of 26 May 2007.
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Similar situation in Arizona schools. Leads me to believe this is precursor to the problem I'm seeing at the University level: rampant cheating. No more simple crib notes, but fully integrated, student-organized group cheating. Profs trying to deal, but being a private university, tuition $$ sometimes appear to carry more weight with administrators than flunking and expelling participants and ringleaders. To there credit, I don't believe many understood the extent until very recently - we'll see where this goes...
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