Wednesday, October 15, 2008

 

NY Times/Lariat

It's not often that the New York Times follows up on a story which broke in the Lariat (Baylor's Student Newspaper) but this time it did.

# posted by Mark Osler @ 11:12 PM
Comments:
What a ridiculous idea. Raise the school's average, not by recruiting students with higher scores, but rather by giving the students you already recruited the chance to retroactively make the scores reflect higher than what they actually were. Why not offer it to seniors at Baylor while we're at it? I'm sure I could've done a lot better on the SAT after taking 4 years of college classes, and I'm sure it would raise the school's SAT average.
# posted by Blogger JT : 12:25 AM
 
Why is it we always come across as a bunch of doofusses in the national press?
# posted by Blogger The Medievalist : 12:44 AM
 
Possibly because it feels like when we do something newsworthy it is usually also doofussy, lol.
# posted by Blogger Unknown : 2:13 AM
 
Here's a follow-up article.
# posted by Blogger Unknown : 2:48 AM
 
From the follow-up:

“'I’m just astounded that rankings would drive policy to such an extent,' Dr. Ballinger said."

Someone needs to write THIS on a napkin and mail it to the BOR, IMHO.
# posted by Blogger Coco : 8:32 AM
 
Maybe this too:

"It’s just like all of a sudden people removed their brains and went to Mars.”
# posted by Blogger Unknown : 8:44 PM
 
^^^Yes. That one, too. :o)
# posted by Blogger Coco : 9:50 AM
 
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