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Thursday, February 23. 2017

Educational signaling


Signaling, for better or worse, is an important part of what humans do in societies. Signaling can convey what one wants to be, or what one is. Educational signaling is an interesting case.


I have always said that, as a rule of thumb, your education can get you your first job, but that, after that, you are mostly standing on that first job. 

Posted by The Barrister in Education, The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 17:27 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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In a twitter response to a person concerned about allowing adult males in the restroom facilities of women and girls, CNN host Chris Cuomo -- a father of two girls himself -- says the girls are the problem, and the parents are “overprotective” and “intolerant” for not wanting their 12-year-old daughter exposed to men in the restroom.

I would add that I don't want a 12-year-old girl in a locker room with naked men either.
#1 jma on 2017-02-23 19:33 (Reply)
Barrister:

You have been writing about signalling for a long time: Princeton Diploma or Princeton Education?
#2 Mike (Link) on 2017-02-23 23:33 (Reply)
It's true, but it's tough when you've got sons who are Romanian immigrants who need every signal they can get. Or son #5, who after three years of pushing against the credentialling wall, might finally be establishing himself in a job that doesn't need a college degree but uses it as a filter in hiring. I think the BA-as-signal edifice will eventually fall, and good riddance. But in the meantime, those are real people out there trying to gain a foothold.
#3 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2017-02-24 00:25 (Reply)
before my first legal job, my school was prominent on my resume because that's all I had. after that, no one ever asked me where I earned my JD.

but I think things are changing because of the ferocious competition at entry level legal jobs. an acquaintance from China attended some east coast college on a student visa. she attended a year long program in general legal studies (not law school) that somehow entitled her to take the NY bar exam, which she passed. then she took the CA bar exam and passed that too, the two hardest bar examinations in the US without having attended law school. she's been second seat in major commercial litigation in CA courts for a small firm. but she's having a problem getting forward with her career because she doesn't have a degree from the "right" school. she's applying to law school, ready to spend some $100,000 in tuition to get a degree from a name law school... insanity.

these AB degrees, the law school degrees are like magical jujus that for a lot of jobs (and I include law) let us pretend there is something worth knowing and that the holder of a paper that says "diploma" has Got It.
#4 Vic Morrow's tommy gun on 2017-02-24 01:23 (Reply)

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