Top 10 Most-Educated U.S. States

My state (Pennsylvania) just barely misses out, at #22. Although I'm guessing my town has a higher rate than average (and also a high graduate degree rate than average) since it's home to Penn State University.

I want what he's smoking

Cool sum up of the evolution process actually.

So there you go. You're the offspring of five monkeys having a baby with a fish squirrel. Congratulations.

Between that and just being devinely created by God, I think I'd rather be made by God....

Did they butcher the teaching of evolution that badly? Or did you just misunderstand it that badly?

We have the same kind of "progress" in Europe.

@divantilya, I'm curious as to what you mean. Every university around me, including large state schools with over 20,000 students, make all students take a core curriculum regardless of major. The core curriculum is liberal arts but is ideally spread out over four years with basic classes for the major in the first two and more intensive major classes in the last two. I was told that it was done this way so that the last two years aren't all classes in one subject so students continually think in different ways throughout their time in college.

I love education for its own sake as much as anyone, but, at the outrageous cost of college, it really should ensure you are prepared for employment. Most people do not have the money to spend $140,000 honing their Jeopardy! skills. And if you go to an "elite" school, the cost can be more than double that. If you're going to demand that a teenager dig themselves into that kind of debt, it is irresponsible, frankly, if you don't do everything to ensure they can get a lucrative job as soon as they leave. I wish I had learned more practical skills like accounting in college. I was an English major and scrupulously avoided any courses that focused on practical skills. All I did was literature, philosophy, history, etc. (And yes, I know those can still be helpful, but you know what I mean.) The goal should ultimately be a college education that is affordable and emphasizes the liberal arts. But we don't have that.

The PawSox decided to move to Worcester and R.I. closed.

lmao if a ceiling is being lowered in higher ed it has little to do with scary liberals talking about equality and probably more to do with colleges being run primarily like businesses instead of learning institutions. Widen the applicant pool, advertise the school more, and you'll get a lower acceptance rate while also being less and less able to analyze applications 'holistically' and more likely to just admit whoever. Maybe that has something to do with equality but nothing to do with the curriculum. Also the pandemic really messed with life as a student in the US. The world wouldn't look any different because we already live in a world where most college grads don't have more than an intro level understanding of math, chem, or physics unless they choose to major in one of those, and I'm pretty sure those are growing fields because jobs. I wonder what the world will look like when people stop giving a crap about the humanities, which is an actual problem in higher ed.

Aaaaaand there went the politics-free comment section. Why must we insert politics into everything?