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. […]
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 […]
Value of College – Continued
May 30, 2014 by
The Value of College: It’s Not Just Correlation – NYTimes.com. I just posted a comment I made on the above article. I added a second comment. Two people responded. I think the two responses are informative, of both thinking and facts. I will post all the comments. MY COMMENT: Today’s college “degree” is not your […]
Another Piece on Value of College by David Leonhardt: Still Wrong Focus
May 30, 2014 by
The Value of College: It’s Not Just Correlation – NYTimes.com. In the above column, David Leonhardt, continues to point out that a college degree is, on average, valuable. I tried to explain (again) in my comment why the fact that today’s college degree is more valuable than today’s high school degree, doesn’t mean that today’s college […]
Workers at N.Y.U.’s Abu Dhabi Site Faced Harsh Conditions
May 19, 2014 by
This is the lead article on today’s Times. Workers at N.Y.U.’s Abu Dhabi Site Faced Harsh Conditions – NYTimes.com. This very good article helps demonstrate just how much American universities think they can get away with in their essentially business operations. Few businesses can take advantage of a decades old brand. Few businesses have the […]
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 […]
Ross Douthat Gets It!
May 11, 2014 by
Great N Y Times Piece by David Leonhardt
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 […]