I just finished Part I (HOW WE GOT HERE) of the highly informative new book by Jeffrey J. Selingo. The title is COLLEGE (UN)BOUND. In just 50 pages, the author gives an excellent description and analysis of what went wrong. The only quibble I have with his analysis is that he seems doesn’t seem to […]
Archives for June 2013
New Comment On NY Times
June 28, 2013 by
“The Fish Stinks From the Head”
June 25, 2013 by
The following is a comment about how administrators may have taken a statement by David Riesman. The comment was made on the following article. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323836504578551904167354358.html?mod=WSJ_article_comments#articleTabs%3Darticle Let’s see, there’s teacher training, not so good, overall. Then there’s STEM training, not so good, overall. Oh, there’s lawyer training, not so good, even “unscrupulous”, according to some […]
A Suggestion for Holding Colleges Accountable for Teacher Performance
June 25, 2013 by
I posted the following suggestion as a comment to this WSJ article http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323836504578553933214167460.html?KEYWORDS=arne#articleTabs%3Darticle A significant part of the teacher competency problem is no fault of the teachers. It starts with the training they get in college. Many high school teachers are especially penalized by inadequate preparation in their subject. This is no fault of […]
Opinion Piece in NY Times on Higher Ed
June 17, 2013 by
Here is the link to it. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/schooling-ourselves-in-an-unequal-america/?comments#comments I commented as follows: The point about college completion rates between generations is greatly magnified by two factors. In that same time period, (1) amount of time studying has decreased by 35%, though grades have gone up, with only 20% now studying as much as students did 30 […]
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