I think it is good that the agreement between Starbucks and ASU is getting attention, but Op-Ed’s like this one worry me considerably. I worry that there will be too many opinions written by people that don’t have a deep knowledge about higher education. I don’t know that this is true in this case, but it sounds like it. […]
Obama Advisor Also on Wrong Track – Worry About Student Education, Not Student Loans
June 15, 2014 by
I wanted to comment further on the article in the previous post. “We are loaning too much money, that, in far too many cases, just goes to fill college coffers. In the meantime, the poor, uneducated “consumer” (once quaintly know as a “student”), gets to be fooled into thinking that she is getting an education. […]
Why Isn’t the Government Collecting Debt From Colleges That Default on Education, Too?
June 14, 2014 by
Here is an article from today’s WSJ Student Debt Takes a Bite Out of More Paychecks – WSJ. Here are my thoughts. “For many colleges, students are just a funnel for funds. Nowadays, colleges ask, “What can students do for my school?”, not “What can I do for my students?”. It should be no surprise […]
“Cal court rules teacher tenure creates impermissible unequal conditions” What about “teacher uneducation”?
June 12, 2014 by
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. […]
Great N Y Times Piece by David Leonhardt
June 10, 2014 by
This is really good and raises the right question. I explain what I mean by that in my comment posted below. A Case Study in Lifting College Attendance – NYTimes.com. “Thank you, Mr. Leohardt! By putting a face on a big problem in education; and then, pointing out that less affluent students have a rougher […]
Brooklyn College Graduates Step In to Depressing Job Market? No, Brooklyn College Appears to Teach Little.
June 9, 2014 by
Brooklyn College Graduates Step In to Depressing Job Market – NYTimes.com. Even their top graduate is having trouble. To get a degree in business, management and finance at Brooklyn College, two math courses are required: Calculus I, and, Elementary Probability and Statistics. (A more advanced Prob. and Stat. course can be taken.) Here are four (of eight) questions from […]
NY Times Might Start to See That Time Matters
June 8, 2014 by
Starting Out Behind – NYTimes.com. In the above editorial, the Times makes comparisons between1970 and 2012. They see that young people did better in 1970 (with fewer having gone to college), but I’m not sure that they are ready to say that education has changed for the worse. I did. Here is my comment. “I […]
Is a Business School a Business?
June 2, 2014 by
Business School, Disrupted – NYTimes.com. I found the above article interesting. I commented: “Worrisome. This article portrays HBS strugging with what should be a decision about EDUCATIONAL POLICY, as being solely a decision about BUSINESS strategy. Robert Maynard Hutcins warned about such an approach. “…when an institution determines to do something in order to […]
Starbucks to Subsidize Workers’ Online Degrees – WSJ
My gut feel is that this will be good. The only problem I have is that I don’t know much about Arizona State University’s programs, and whether they offer a good education. Starbucks to Subsidize Workers’ Online Degrees – WSJ. I commented. “I know little about ASU’s program, but, I do know that universities in […]