You are a student taking an important math course taught in large lecture sections by an adjunct (who dropped out of your elite school's graduate program). That frees up some of the professorial staff to work with a few brilliant math students that … [Continue reading]
“The Fish Stinks From the Head”
June 25, 2013 by
The following is a comment about how administrators may have taken a statement by David Riesman. The comment was made on the following … [Continue reading]
A Suggestion for Holding Colleges Accountable for Teacher Performance
June 25, 2013 by
I posted the following suggestion as a comment to this WSJ article http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323836504578553933214167460.html?KEYWORDS=arne#articleTabs%3Darticle A significant part of the teacher competency problem … [Continue reading]
Opinion Piece in NY Times on Higher Ed
June 17, 2013 by
Here is the link to it. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/schooling-ourselves-in-an-unequal-america/?comments#comments I commented as follows: The point about college completion rates between generations is greatly magnified by … [Continue reading]
Not a Bad Life For Students With Time on Their Hands
June 14, 2013 by
See the interesting "student housing" article in the NYTimes, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/15/us/in-luxury-student-housing-gym-tan-and-study.html?pagewanted=1&ref=us#postcomment My Comment: Hey, the kids have got to do something with … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
Important Paper on the Value of a Good Teacher (from a MacArthur Award Winner)
June 13, 2013 by
Raj Chetty (MacArthur Award Winner, HS Valedictorian, Harvard Summa Cum Laude [in only 3 years], Harvard PhD in Economics [in only 3 years], now a Harvard Professor) and his colleagues, John N. Friedman (Harvard) and Jonah E. Rockoff published "The … [Continue reading]
Good Op/Ed in WSJ about Online Courses and Education
June 3, 2013 by
In my view, an important part of the article is the discussion of resistance to MOOC's. Also, the author speaks from experience, not from studies. We need both, but we are short on op/ed's from experience. It is by Andy Kessler. You can find him … [Continue reading]
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