I talk to a lot of parents and students about education. When I discuss either the things that I have seen, or, all the bad news that comes out about education, they agree that it is awful. Then we start talking about their own experiences with the system – and we are off to Lake Wobegon. […]
Wall Street Journal Notes That Colleges are Worried About Not Enough Students. Are We Going to Get the 70’s Again With a Vengeance?
September 5, 2013 by
The WSJ reports bad news for education because any worry about decreased revenues, in my experience, leads to less education. You can read my argument, either as a comment on the article,(http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323893004579055332692755074.html?mod=WSJ_article_comments#articleTabs%3Darticle) or here: Oh, no, here we go again. In the 50’s and 60’s higher education became accustomed to a great influx of revenues. […]
USA Today claims that “Data measure value of a college degree”
September 3, 2013 by
USA Today has an article http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/03/how-higher-education-pays/2755345/ that has some findings that I think are (unintentionally) misleading. It relied too much on gross dats. Here is what I wrote. Is this “solving for the winning solution?” The article compares Tech. Assoc. Degrees in Texas with baccalaureate degrees to make one point, then compares STEM degrees in Virginia […]
Important Paper on Value of Good Teacher May Be a Game Changer
August 30, 2013 by
If the news in this WSJ article is true, I think it could be very important. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324324404579043311787197976.html?mod=WSJ_article_comments#articleTabs%3Dcomments “If it is really true that “…colleges of education will be required…to track graduates’ performance in K-12 classrooms and ensure they are contributing to student growth, as measured by test scores or other factors.”, then this is great […]
Employers Want Tests for Graduates According to WSJ
August 26, 2013 by
What If Your Family Is Not Elite And You Go To A “Consumer-Oriented” Elite College?
August 26, 2013 by
Let’s say you want to be an engineer. Say you take a faux-physics course and a faux-calculus course, etc… What will be the difference between you and some of your colleagues from elite families? (I will speak of the “average” you and the “average” them.) Neither you, nor they, will learn the engineering skills that […]
Obama Administration Proposes to Make Colleges More Affordable and Accountable
August 22, 2013 by
The Obama Administration will “…announce a set of ambitious proposals…” today, according to an article in today’s New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/22/education/obamas-plan-aims-to-lower-cost-of-college.html?pagewanted=1&ref=tamarlewin Here is my view, which I put in a comment to the article. “No one could have addressed the need for government regulation than did David Riesman, our deepest thinker ever on higher education. […]
Northwestern President Publishes Study About Northwestern And the National Bureau of Economic Research Publishes It?
Here is a link to the Chronicle of Higher Education’s article, “Adjuncts Are Better Teachers Than Tenured Professors, Study Finds” http://chronicle.com/article/Ad-juncts-Are-Bet-ter/141523/ Here is my view, which I posted on the Chronicle’s site as a comment. “The PRESIDENT of Northwestern has done a study about Northwester’s students, Northwestern’s Professors, and, Northwestern’s Adjuncts- a study coauthored with […]