http://www.nytimes.com/pages/opinion/index.html I commented on this piece because I’m afraid it missed the point. Here is what I wrote. (If you have read TeacherTeacher competency exams for holding UNIVERSITIES accountable and It Starts in the18th Grade you already know the essence of what I wrote in my comment.) As a math professor with over two decades teaching […]
Archives for April 2013
Great post on The Atlantic Site about Law Schools
April 9, 2013 by
Here is the link: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/04/the-jobs-crisis-at-our-best-law-schools-is-much-much-worse-than-you-think/274795/ Here are more disturbing numbers. The salaries of those who reported full time jobs are extremely bimodally distributed – with well over 60% making less than $65,000/yr and 14%making about $160,000/yr and not a lot in between. (From the website of The Association of Legal Career Professionals. See their Salary […]
Interesting article in NYTimes today (4-9-2013)
April 9, 2013 by
Interesting article in NYTimes today (4-9-2013) http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/09/technology/coursesmart-e-textbooks-track-students-progress-for-teachers.html?hp Here is what I posted. (I think it could be a lot clearer, since there are certainly students who don’t need to study much to perform well. On the other hand, even Einstein failed his French exam when he didn’t study. So, I guess what I mean is that if […]
Teacher competency exams for holding UNIVERSITIES accountable
April 8, 2013 by
If we gave teachers – starting with high school teachers – competency exams in their subject field, where we compiled performance data only for the schools they attended, we could start to hold universities accountable. It seems to me that this would be easy to do. I’m sure the teachers would agree if their individual scores were […]
Why many Americans aren’t getting jobs. WSJ Article…Visa Demand Jumps
April 2, 2013 by
(This post is closely related to my previous post WSJ Article: …Grads May Be Stuck in Low-Skill Jobs) This is from my comment on the article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324883604578396680112980530.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories While it may be true that in some cases the employer is seeking lower costs, the evidence clearly points to the fact that in too many instances, companies […]
Social Security Garnished for Some Scammed Graduate Students
At least, that is my take on the article in the Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/I-Fully-Expect-to-Die-With/138507/ It notes that student debt for those over 60 is over $38 Billion and for over 50 is $155 Billion! Here is the short story as I see it. Many students go to far too many undergraduate schools where far […]