This is from Richard Cyert’s 1973 inaugural address as President of Carnegie Mellon University. He served until 1990. He certainly helped build a great university. “…Some people associate a quality education with fine, new buildings. Yet every new building increases the operating budget…and the university may end up with fewer funds for its educational…budget…it is far better […]
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 […]
“Helping the Poor in Education” Yes, But to Really Help Them…
January 17, 2015 by
Certainly this idea, Helping the Poor in Education: The Power of a Simple Nudge – NYTimes.com doesn’t hurt, but we can do much better. I commented. Helping someone get a college “degree” – without a college “education” – only helps at the periphery; especially when they only have a high school “degree”, but no high school […]
Part III of: Washington U. in St. Louis “Says” It’s On Board Now With Aid to All Talented People
January 16, 2015 by
The Least Economically Diverse Top College, Seeking to Change – NYTimes.com. I added this. “…an existing financial aid budget of $100 million…” Be careful about the definition of “financial aid”. Here is a good explanation from the article “Despite Rising Sticker Prices Actual College Costs Stable Over Decade Study Says” (October 25, 2013, New York […]
Donor seeks to offer ‘freshman year for free’ through online college courses (Wah. Post)
Donor seeks to offer ‘freshman year for free’ through online college courses – The Washington Post. Good idea, especially in light of what I have seen. I wrote. I’m a former math professor. At Washington University in St. Louis, I taught a course based on MIT’s OpenCourseWare. Their materials were excellent and easy for me […]