‘A National Admissions Office’ for Low-Income Strivers – NYTimes.com. Though it appears to be a great program started by a caring couple, I did comment as follows, “I taught at both a regional state school and one of the country’s most selective schools. The difference was like night and day and this program is a […]
Washington U. in St. Louis is a Standout on NY Times Graph – See Why
September 12, 2014 by
Look at this article for the graph. Making Top Colleges Less Aristocratic and More Meritocratic – NYTimes.com. What is interesting is how Wash. U. brags that they do the opposite of what the graph shows. Look here for what I mean by that. I posted this comment on the Times article. (Someone didn’t agree what I wrote and […]
Another Comment on David Brooks “Becoming a Real Person”
September 9, 2014 by
Becoming a Real Person – NYTimes.com. “For the life of me, I cannot fathom why David Brooks and Frank Bruni (See his piece from yesterday.) are discussing what college should be, what colleges should do, etc. , when, overall, colleges (elite or not) have become corrupt institutions. As well meaning as Brooks and Bruni may […]
The Real Purpose of a University – It Needs to be Changed
September 9, 2014 by
In today’s New York Times, David Brooks writes in his op-ed, Becoming a Real Person – NYTimes.com , that “…We have before us then, three distinct purposes for a university…”. No, there is just one – Self Aggrandizement. Here is what I wrote. “I taught at an “elite” university (Washington U. in St. Louis) and I have […]
How the Government Exaggerates the Cost of College – NYTimes.com
July 31, 2014 by
How the Government Exaggerates the Cost of College – NYTimes.com. Good points with a good graph. For why colleges do this, look here. For how colleges manipulate the “rack rate” to show how much “more” financial aid they give, see this post . (I just updated this post to add the comment I made. Sorry about the difficult-to-understand writing; I’m on vacation.) […]
Part Two of Americans Think We Have the World’s Best Colleges. We Don’t.
June 28, 2014 by
I have looked at the data and think this is important. I hope the study that this talks about is widely reported. I will post later on what I think the data shows. Americans Think We Have the World’s Best Colleges. We Don’t. – NYTimes.com. Since I think this is so important, I commented further. (And […]
Americans Think We Have the World’s Best Colleges. We Don’t. – NYTimes.com
June 28, 2014 by
There is more data (“Academically Adrift” reported on this a few years ago.) that show that the “average” college grad in American Americans Think We Have the World’s Best Colleges. We Don’t. – NYTimes.com. To illustrt]ate the data, I commented as follows. “The poor quality of k-12, especially high school, is DUE to the corruption (over […]
“When the facts change, I change.” John Maynard Keynes
June 24, 2014 by
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 […]
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