Source: The Misguided Drive to Measure ‘Learning Outcomes’ – The New York Times I commented: The elephant in the classroom is obvious to those with experience in higher education; and, as this author points out, “assessment” won’t budge the elephant. Throughout my career as a math professor – first at a state regional school, […]
Good Read: The Misguided Drive to Measure ‘Learning Outcomes’ – The New York Times
February 23, 2018 by
Corporations and Government and Education – Excellent Analysis by Frank Bruni in NY Times
February 11, 2018 by
Source: Corporations Will Inherit the Earth – The New York Times I posted this comment on the page. Here is Thomas Jefferson on the importance of the type of education that is critical to democracy but not to corporations. “…Preach…a crusade against ignorance…improve the law for educating the common people. Let our countrymen know […]
Thoughtful Post by V Santhakumar
November 9, 2017 by
Of Course They Operate Like Businesses – They ARE Businesses
November 9, 2017 by
A Graph Worth a Lot WSJ
October 25, 2017 by
Source: College Costs Continue to Edge Higher – WSJ I commented. It’s important to understand that colleges, not only use discriminatory pricing (“discriminatory” in its economic sense), but advertise a high tuition for branding purposes. Here is what that high price says to the “customer” (once quaintly called the “student”). You, the customer, are going […]
Maybe We’ve Been Thinking About the Productivity Slump All Wrong – The New York Times Me: You Betcha
July 26, 2017 by
Source: Maybe We’ve Been Thinking About the Productivity Slump All Wrong – The New York Times Here is what I wrote To paraphrase a politician, “It’s the education, stupid.” But, don’t we have the greatest universities in the world? Yes, but that doesn’t mean that those universities are doing anything to broadly disseminate knowledge. Our […]
From “Student Consumerism” to “Student Markism”
July 18, 2017 by
Clark Kerr famously noted a “…shift from academic merit to student consumerism…”. Since Kerr’s observation (1980) we have shifted from “students” as “consumers” to “students” as easy “marks”, as in a “mark” in a con game. (There are many reasons why so many of them are “easy marks”, but, see David Riesman’s view here.)
As Paperwork Goes Missing, Private Student Loan Debts May Be Wiped Away – The New York Times
July 18, 2017 by
David Brooks See the Symptom – But Not the Disease
June 23, 2017 by
Source: Mis-Educating the Young – The New York Times Here is my comment. You have described the symptoms well, but you have missed the disease. The disease is letting higher education operate as a market economy – while assuming that, as a non-profit, it is altruistic. Just listen to Clark Kerr and David Riesman on […]
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