Here is The Economist take on it. Higher education: Is college worth it? | The Economist. Compare this with The Atlantic Magazine's Gung-Ho-All-The-Stats-Show-Everyone-Should-Go approach. If you search this blog for "Atlantic" you will see how … [Continue reading]
More on “Corporate Cash Alters University Curricula”
April 8, 2014 by
Corporate Cash Alters University Curricula. There were some replies to my comment. I replied to one and someone very thoughtfully replied to that and..... Anyway, here they all are. Anthony Bonefeste wrote, "Acedemic freedom" is all … [Continue reading]
Corporations Join Up With Colleges to Design Curricula – WSJ.com
April 8, 2014 by
Corporations Join Up With Colleges to Design Curricula - WSJ.com. This reporting is excellent and important. I commented but this is a topic that I want to think about more. Here is my comment. "Good news? or, bad news? Here is the view from … [Continue reading]
Groucho on: “Colleges Increasing Spending on Sports Faster Than on Academics, Report Finds” – NYT.com
April 7, 2014 by
Colleges Increasing Spending on Sports Faster Than on Academics, Report Finds - NYTimes.com. GROUCHO (Dean Quincy Adams Wagstaff ): Have we got a stadium? FACULTY: Yes. GROUCHO: Have we got a college? FACULTY: Yes. GROUCHO: Well, we … [Continue reading]
Content Deflation III – Does Wash. U. Physics Prof. Adopt It With Zeal? And Does the University Boast About It? Read This
April 3, 2014 by
This is from my story ATaleOutofSchool but it is self-contained. I think it is helpful in understanding how much "content deflation" has entered the academy as a marketing tool that caters to student "wants", while leaving students on their own to … [Continue reading]
Error in Social Progress Index? Inadverdently Noted in New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristoff
April 3, 2014 by
Here are the links to the column and the Index Editorials, Columns, Op-Ed, Letters, Opinionator and More Opinion - The New York Times. Social Progress Index - Data - Social Progress Index - The Social Progress Imperative. The error is … [Continue reading]
Why Does Grade Inflation Work?
Don A. Moore, Samuel A. Swift, Zachariah S. Sharek and Francesca Gino, whose paper I cited in Grade Inflation Pays But So Does Rolling Back the Odometer – Or Overrating a Bond have a more recent paper, PLOS ONE: Inflated Applicants: Attribution … [Continue reading]