Since the diplomas no longer mean much, California’s universities should not keep making them an admission condition.
This shift is the dark side of California’s rush to eliminate standardized testing. By scrapping the SAT and the high school exit exam, the state claims to be inclusive because standardized test results often are biased. But, without this testing that shows how students are doing, the educational system is avoiding accountability and shifting the costs of its failures onto students.
Giving those students a real chance to stick in our universities will be hard. It will demand new ways of assessing high school dropouts to see where they fit in the university systems. It will require more counseling and resources to keep them there. But if more students whose educations were disrupted by the pandemic can get to and through college, they won’t be the only winners. Colleges, sufferingIndeed, decoupling high school graduation from college attendance could prove to be more than a short-term experiment.A new policy of opening universities to high school dropouts could help address those problems.
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