This is in today’s Wash. Post. Rating colleges is ‘like rating a blender’ — Education Department official Even though I don’t know yet what the Obama’s rating system will be and I have serious qualms, we need something, as I expressed on today’s article. “Rating, ranking, etc…is a problem. But the system we have now […]
Elite University Extension (Night, Etc..) Schools – Do You Get The School’s Education?
September 16, 2013 by
First, in this day and time, who knows? It may be better. It may be worse, but it is an important topic and there is a nice piece in The Atlantic by someone who attended Harvard’s Extension School. http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/09/did-i-really-go-to-harvard-if-i-got-my-degree-taking-online-classes/279644/ I wanted to add my experience to the discussion. I hope it will help inform people. […]
Science and Engineering College Comparisons – Many Liberal Arts Schools Doing Great Job.
September 16, 2013 by
I have updated my page Baccalaureate to Ph.D. in Science and Engineering (Feeder Schools) to add a list of the top 50 colleges that produce students that go on to a Ph.D. in Science and Engineering. To me, that is a strong indication that they are doing a good job of teaching Science and Engineering, whether […]
Link to A Column by Paul Krugman on Education
June 14, 2013 by
I think it is informative – and a little scary. I worry that it makes the mistake of confusing “degreed” with “educated”. I made a comment online to that effect. Here is the link to the article, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/opinion/krugman-sympathy-for-the-luddites.html?ref=opinion&comments&_r=0#postcomment
Interesting article in NYTimes today (4-9-2013)
April 9, 2013 by
Interesting article in NYTimes today (4-9-2013) http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/09/technology/coursesmart-e-textbooks-track-students-progress-for-teachers.html?hp Here is what I posted. (I think it could be a lot clearer, since there are certainly students who don’t need to study much to perform well. On the other hand, even Einstein failed his French exam when he didn’t study. So, I guess what I mean is that if […]
More On “More on Starbucks – And Arizona State – And Alarms”
An online conversation has been going on on my comment referenced in my previous post . I will copy and past it here. Eric from NJ replied to my first comment. (see the post ) Engineers have to have a lot of courses in math – calculus up to and beyond differential equations as well as […]