Opinions on testing public schools students as a way to measure progress and as an accounting tool are varied, but are these exams working? Source: Is Testing Students the Answer to America’s Education Woes? – Room for Debate – NYTimes.com My Comment “Almost everyone involved in this debate is missing the 800-pound gorilla in the […]
“Is Testing Students the Answer to America’s Education Woes?” The Real Answer is: Test the Colleges Through the Teachers!
May 4, 2015 by
Frank Bruni Thinks Learning LibArts Is Important? I Do Too, But Where Do You Go To Do That?
May 3, 2015 by
See From ‘Hamlet’ to Hillary – NYTimes.com for Bruni’s article. My comment: “As a former professor – and observer of higher education – I think that in 2015 you would be hard put to find the type of courses that your examples took, not in 2015. I recently posted (on my blog inside-higher-ed) a syllabus from […]
Mr. Bruni, Don’t Be Surprised When You Don’t FInd “Academic Virtues” in Academe
April 22, 2015 by
Hollywood Trumps Harvard – NYTimes.com. Professors Gates and Oz are just doing what hordes [of] professors and administrators do regularly – act in their own interests, letting us praise “academic virtues”, not them. I’m a former math professor. After over twenty years inside the tower, I have seen how easy it is to prey on […]
Gov’t Appropriations Per Student UP dramatically; Learning Per Student DOWN dramatically
April 5, 2015 by
Another comment I made on, The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much – NYTimes.com. “…appropriations per student are much higher now than they were in the 60’s…” (end of paragraph six), but learning (and later earning) per student has decreased dramatically – even at many so-called “elite” schools. (There is much evidence that demonstrates […]
When Is It Ok For a Non-Profit To Misrpresent Its Fees to the Public?
April 5, 2015 by
The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much – NYTimes.com. “This is just another peak behind the door that hides the real goals and social order of America’s system of “higher” education. But its not only public schools that play fast and loose with their descriptions. Private colleges do, also – most even more so. […]
“We’re Frighteningly in the Dark About Student Debt” – But Even More in the Dark About What We Are Buying
March 22, 2015 by
We’re Frighteningly in the Dark About Student Debt – NYTimes.com. I commented as follow: (Please note the “fixes” to the poor writing I submitted.) We are loaning money to naïve – and by definition – uneducated “consumers” so that they can “buy” an education. Yet the “sellers” in blocking block all attempts for either the […]
Math’s Enigma’s? Great, But Some People Want to Keep Them a Secret.
March 14, 2015 by
On Pi Day, Celebrate Math’s Enigmas – NYTimes.com. I had to comment. True, oh so true: “…it’s only when we try to stretch our minds around mathematics’ enigmas that true understanding can set in.” (The Op-Ed’s last line.) But, far too true, too: “…stretch[ing] our minds around mathematics…” is what so many unscrupulous college administrators […]
Kevin Carey’s Good Idea (MOOC’s) Needs Help
March 10, 2015 by
College for a New Age – NYTimes.com is a good editorial about Kevin Carey’s new book. He has good ideas about MOOC’s, but he needs help, as I pointed out. “I’m a former professor. I now write a blog on higher education’ inside-higher-ed . I have read several of Mr. Carey’s essays. He understands higher education, […]
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