In our assessment, there were wide variations in the curriculum content even for public institutions that offer the same academic award.
And never mind that those same academic counselors admitted that they were well aware that the paper courses existed, that they required relatively little work and that they generally resulted in high grades.
But our goal should be to insist that athletes have access to the same quality of education as other students, and that they meet the same academic standards.
"If you've got a poor black kid and a rich white kid that have exactly the same academic achievement levels, do you want the same expectations for both of them the next year?
Last month, the Knight Commission, a panel largely composed of college presidents, concluded that the academic standards of college sports were "abysmal" and "disgraceful" and recommended that coaches be instructed that their job is "primarily to educate young people" and that athletes should meet the same academic requirements as other students.
But Dr Robert Spitzer has now apologised in the same academic journal that published his original study, calling it "fatally flawed".
Sure, millions of households have the same income, but that doesn't mean they have the same assets, or that their students have the same academic abilities, athletic abilities or needs.
To this day, teacher salaries remain way below those in public schools and schools in other dioceses, and individual Catholic schools still don't provide parents the same academic accountability that neighborhood public schools offer by publicizing their test scores.
And even more narrowly, in recent decades important new artists have been most likely to emerge from the same academic institutions that have produced important artists in the past.
This is the same academic rank that is currently reported in the Medical Student Performance Evaluation letters for graduating seniors.
