Education major and Med School?

mom2collegekids
Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:07:52 +0000

*A college degree is just about essential to make a lot of money in a career, but what if you don’t want to work all that hard to get a diploma?

Slackers wanting to earn the country’s easiest college major, should major in education.

It’s easy to get “A’s” if you’re an education major. Maybe that’s why one out of 10 college graduates major in education.

Research over the years has indicated that education majors, who enter college with the lowest average SAT scores, leave with the highest grades. Some of academic evidence documenting easy A’s for future teachers goes back more than 50 years!

The latest damning report on the ease of majoring in education comes from research at the University of Missouri, my alma mater. The study, conducted by economist Cory Koedel shows that education majors receive “substantially higher” grades than students in every other department.*

I think a Fellow at Stanford did similar research about 10 years ago when he published that the major with the lowest SAT scores on any campus, were the Education majors…particularly Elem-Ed.