Here’s What Will Truly Change Higher Education: Online Degrees That Are Seen as Official – NYTimes.com. From my perspective, as a former math professor, this excellent article misses only one important point about the conflict between traditional colleges and online courses – a point that my experience teaching from an online MIT course at Washington […]
Excellent Op-Ed (And From Me, How to Hold Colleges Feet to Fire with Online Access)
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I think this is a good piece. Note that she does realize that for-profits are not the only problem schools. A Strike Against Student Debt – NYTimes.com.
Rip Van Skillsgap on Paul Krugman’s Blog Is Wrong
February 24, 2015 by
Rip Van Skillsgap – NYTimes.com. “Please, Prof. Krugman, you are too important a voice not to pay attention to data that screams that there is a gigantic gap between what you think is an education, and what “customers” (once quaintly known as “students”) are actually getting – even in many so-called “elite” schools. There is […]
Rip Van Skillsgap? (Paul Krugman, Again)
February 23, 2015 by
Paul Krugman Thinks a Degree is an Education?
February 23, 2015 by
Knowledge Isn’t Power – NYTimes.com. Unfortunately, Prof. Krugman writes that there isn’t that much of an education problem. Here is what I wrote. (Please ignore the terrible writing. I was in a big hurry and made too many changes, too fast. Embarrassing.) “I highly regard Prof. Krugman’s analysis of FACTS. So it is disturbing when […]
Penn Professor Tells It Like It Is
February 18, 2015 by
I highly recommend reading this. College, Poetry and Purpose – NYTimes.com. Though I made a comment, it is so similar to others, that, for regular readers, I just recommend the NY Times piece. Here is my comment. Prof. Hall is correct about students as “customers”; though the problem is not with them. It is with […]
Higher Education, Liberal Arts and Shakespeare – NYTimes.com
February 11, 2015 by
Higher Education, Liberal Arts and Shakespeare – NYTimes.com. My comment: First, liberal arts is not a luxury. Try this for starters. When you try to move up the corporate ladder, you are not going to get many chances to ask higher ups what they “meant by that”; and you better hope you can write good […]
Excellent Essay on College Truth – Should Be Required Reading
February 8, 2015 by
This essay by Kevin Carey is excellent. How to Raise a University’s Profile: Pricing and Packaging – NYTimes.com. I commented, but just to add to the information in the essay. Thank you, Mr. Carey. This essay should be required reading for everyone – at least everyone who cares about our economy, our society, and the […]
Is College Sexual Assault a Fraternity Problem? Fundamentally, No.
January 29, 2015 by
Is College Sexual Assault a Fraternity Problem? – NYTimes.com. I wrote: “The problem is colleges, period. They do what their “customers” ask, whether it be in the realm of fun, football, faux-classes, faux-degrees, or whatever. If they get complaints from “customers” that the school is no fun, they will get fun – even if that […]
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