A lot of what David Leonhardt says in this article is important information, but I believe he, and others, need to understand, that data based on students from 30, or even 2o, years ago, is not suffecient to draw conclusions about today’s students. What worries me is that there seems to be a rush to […]
Is A Simpler Mortgage Application Good Or Bad, If The House Isn’t Inspected?
June 20, 2014 by
A Simple Way to Help Financial Aid Do Its Job – NYTimes.com. is by Susan Dynarski (whose previous article I have commented on) and Judith Scott-Clayton of Columtia Teachers College – a school I have had some problems with before. I think it is important that I point that out, though I know nothing about […]
More on Starbucks – And Arizona State – And Alarms
June 17, 2014 by
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. […]
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 […]
Just Data Is Not Enough When College Changed So Much in Thirty Years
May 30, 2014 by
I posted this thought on the following article. The Jobless Rate for Community-College Graduates Is Also Low – NYTimes.com. Mr. Leonhardt is confronted with a big problem in trying to understand higher education in America just from data and then concluding that college is contributing to the economy in an overwhelming way. The problem is […]
More on Frank Bruni’s Column
May 18, 2014 by
In the previous post , I explained why I don’t believe that America has many “great” universities. I made another comment on the same article, trying to point out why “just money” is not even close to the answer. Here is the comment. “We can’t just “..pump more public money back into higher education to keep […]
Frank Bruni Gets Closer to the Truth, But Just Closer
May 18, 2014 by
This is his column for today: Class, Cost and College – NYTimes.com. I have a post and a link to one of his previous columns. I made a couple of comments on his column to try to explain why I don’t totally agree with him. Here there are, in reverse order. second comment “…reminded…of the greatness […]
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