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Here is a list of my posts that I believe are most essential for understanding the problems with higher education. I suggest reading the page with quotes from David Riesman and Clark Kerr, first, though. Then, hopefully, some of my posts give examples and explanations of how their general observations work out in practice. The best place on this blog for seeing and understanding just how outrageous things have become – and how much some academics think they can get away with – see A Tale Out of School – A Case Study in Higher Education. Finally, keep in mind that if what follows is what just one individual has observed, how much else is there?
EDUCATION AT MAJOR UNIVERSITIES
How Competition Leads to “Content Deflation” in One Anecdote
America: A flagging model | The Economist
How to Make Calculus Students Believe They Know Calculus When They Don’t
EDUCATION AT STATE REGIONAL SCHOOLS
Professor Alfred Doesn’t Know What is Wrong with the Homework
Prof. Teaches Stats But Doesn’t Seem to Have a Clue About the Most Fundamental Notion
Statistics Prof. Kevin Doesn’t Understand Basic Math, or Statistics
Regional State School Stories – Some Brief Thoughts About How Did This Happen
MAJOR UNIVERSITIES EFFECT ON REGIONAL SCHOOLS AND HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER EDUCATION
No Jobs for Ph.D’s? Depends on what you mean by Ph.D.
An Example of College Benefitting From the Dumbing Down of High School
Important Paper on Value of Good Teacher May Be a Game Changer
“They Just Don’t Get It” part 2
A Suggestion for Holding Colleges Accountable for Teacher Performance
RESEARCH ETHICS
Scientists “Forced” to Cheat Says Medical School Professor
GENERAL
Arum and Roksa’s Important New Book “Aspiring Adults Adrift”
Professors DON’T become professors to teach! Better get over that idea fast.
Median Starting Salaries for College Graduates $27,000 or $40,735?
Columbia University – Another 3-2 Program Like Wash. U.’s?
When Is It Ok For a Non-Profit To Misrpresent Its Fees to the Public?
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“Cal court rules teacher tenure creates impermissible unequal conditions” What about “teacher uneducation”?
California court rules teacher tenure creates impermissible unequal conditions – The Washington Post.
Also, several papers and magazines published opinion pieces. I basically repeated this comment. I want as many people as possible to understand how much of the problem is how the teachers are taught – or not taught. Here are links to those articles.
Will California’s Ruling Against Teacher Tenure Change Schools? – Dana Goldstein – The Atlantic.
California teacher tenure is struck down: Expect years of appeals – Los Angeles Times.
Michelle Rhee: California tenure ruling is a win for teachers and children – The Washington Post.
California Ruling on Teacher Tenure Is Not Whole Picture – NYTimes.com.
Should Everyone Have Tenure? – Forbes.
Teacher tenure: Brown v Board, the sequel | The Economist.
I commented.
“What we need to get rid of is “college-tenure”. I don’t mean that professors shouldn’t have tenure; I mean that colleges that graduate unqualified teachers, should be on a “no hire from” list.
All we have to do is give teacher competency tests that are anonymous for the individual (to avoid union resistance), but are made public by school.
New York City did something like this and what school came out poorly? Columbia, of course. Since I have been a professor for years, this was no surprise to me. Colleges aren’t much about education, anymore. They have discovered that “students” are uneducated “consumers” whose “wants” can be satisfied much easier than their “needs”. (Some of the things that go along with learning aren’t on everyone’s “want” list – not even mine, and I’m a professor. Of course, I can’t be fooled into only thinking I’m learning when I’m not; but many 18 year olds can be. Unscrupulous professors and institutions take advantage of that fact, too.)
The public needs to realize that the problem starts in college. That is where high school teachers get, or don’t get, the education THEY need to teach well.
I have a blog www.inside-higher-ed.com where I comment on both Columbia and how college dumbs down high school. After years of teaching and observing, I have decided to describe what happens and how. “
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