One might be to cut the vast amounts that a state like California spends in maintaining a socially devastating mass incarceration system that benefits for-profit companies; another, to raise taxes on the wealthy to fund higher education (a modest version of this succeeded as a California ballot initiative in 2012), under the assumption that the wealthy already enjoy access to higher education and that its opportunities need to be more widely available so as to forestall the creation of an undemocratic hereditary oligarchy. This piece in Dissent magazine took a less than glowing view on MOOCs , stating : instead of equalising instructional standards across American higher education , MOOCs will only increase the gap between Stanford"s " gold standard " and the standards available to most college students .
This piece in Dissent magazine took a less than glowing view on MOOCs , stating : instead of equalising instructional standards across American higher education , MOOCs will only increase the gap between Stanford"s " gold standard " and the standards available to most college students .