Archives for June 2014

Brooklyn College Graduates Step In to Depressing Job Market? No, Brooklyn College Appears to Teach Little.

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

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 […]

Is a Business School a Business?

Business School, Disrupted – NYTimes.com. I found the above article interesting.   I commented: “Worrisome. This article portrays HBS strugging with what should be a decision about EDUCATIONAL POLICY, as being solely a decision about BUSINESS strategy. Robert Maynard Hutcins warned about such an approach. “…when an institution determines to do something in order to […]