At Universities, a Push for Data-Driven Career Services – NYTimes.com.
Archives for January 2015
At Universities, a Push for Data-Driven Career Services – NYTimes.com
January 26, 2015 by
Your College May Be Banking on Your Facebook Likes – NYTimes.com
January 25, 2015 by
Frank Bruni of New Times Sees The Connection – But Not All
January 21, 2015 by
College, President Obama and the Common Core – NYTimes.com. Finally someone is realizing that education in America is a continuum. That continuum starts at the top. Unaccountability at the top is why American education now so bad. I’m a former math professor. Let me explain how it works. (For the details – and evidence – […]
Support Our Students (Part Two)
January 20, 2015 by
Support Our Students – NYTimes.com. I added a comment. “..Half of all community-college students arrive unprepared for college work..” I think Mr. Brooks just wrote, correctly, that now even much of high school “education” is a sham. That is because far too many colleges are a sham. (High school teachers got (or, more likely, did […]
Support Our Students – by David Brooks
January 20, 2015 by
Support Our Students – NYTimes.com. I commented. “..The important task is to help students graduate..” No, the important task is to help students acquire an “education”, not a just “graduation”. This lack of content in so many “degrees” – whether they are high school degrees or college degrees – can be traced to the greed […]
Debate On Times Site: Are Global Universities Good for U.S. Colleges?
January 20, 2015 by
Are Global Universities Good for U.S. Colleges? – Room for Debate – NYTimes.com. They have seven debaters with six different views. The best comment I have seen about this issue – or, almost any issue – is from Robert Maynard Hutchins. “It is sad but true that when an institution determines to do something in order […]
Why are so many college students failing to gain job skills before graduation? – The Washington Post
Why are so many college students failing to gain job skills before graduation? – The Washington Post. I commented with my usual comment: The answer is easy. (I am a former math professor. I taught at an “elite” school (Washington U. in St. Louis) and, before that, at a regional state school.) Here is the answer […]