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The Puzzle Is Real The Ubiquity of Useless Education
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what students have to learn and what workers need to know
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signaling model solves a puzzle:

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we must scrutinize precisely what students learn and what employers reward.
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no matter what they study, students are learning “how to learn” or “how to think.”
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stories about blood, sweat, and tears:
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discipline”

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“builds character.”

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The Content of the Curriculum

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What’s today’s mix? 90% wheat and 10% chaff? 50/50? 20/80?
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ETÀ ESAMINATA

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Digest of Education Statistics
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students eventually apply their lessons on the job?
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knowledge of the subject improves job performance in a wide range of occupations;
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knowledge of the subject improves job performance in some common occupations;
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knowledge of the subject at best improves job performance in rare occupations;
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literacy and numeracy
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technical classes
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cooking, sewing, metalworking, woodworking, drafting, or computer programming.
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science
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arts
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“starving artists”
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Foreign languages,
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Physical education,
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a handful of budding professional athletes
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more academic and less practical
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schools teach and often require math rarely used
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featuring countless proofs of triangles’ congruence, is notoriously irrelevant.
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you’ll probably never differentiate another equation unless you pursue a degree in math,
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statistics, in contrast, is useful
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school is far from the skill factory we often imagine
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Engineering
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“health professions” and agriculture majors
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You don’t need a business degree to work in business,
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You don’t need a degree in public administration to be a bureaucrat,
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about 35% of majors end up in the Medium category.
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graduates in pure mathematics have no clear occupational track.
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no one pays you to prove theorems.

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Liberal arts programs uphold the ideal of “knowledge for knowledge’s sake.”
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Historians, unsurprisingly, have the bleakest prospects of all.
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majority of students who earn these degrees find employment outside their field.

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STORIA COMUNICAZ PSIC

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How do you know Latin, trigonometry, or Emily Dickinson won’t serve you on the job?
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his French once helped him understand an airport announcement in Paris.
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These claims remind me of Hoarders,
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Taken literally, the hoarders are right: there is a chance they’ll need
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trash is almost always a bad idea.
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retreat to agnosticism. “No one knows
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Measured Learning
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education pays only because students learn.
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purists also ought to believe workers retain
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low learning/retention would be a puzzle.
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Students can win employers’ favor by learning enough to get a good grade—then
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randomly give some kids extra education, then measure their surplus knowledge.
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