You can read about the report from Columbia’s “College Educational Quality Project” here: http://chronicle.com/article/A-New-Kind-of-Study-Seeks-to/144621/#disqus_thread The report says it examined “educational rigor” and “teaching quality” to reach its conclusion, which you can read about in my comment below. I commented with what I thought about their conclusion: “The “College Educational Quality (CEQ) Project at Teachers College, […]
Columbia University Report Says “Academically Adrift” is Wrong. Right? No, Wrong.
February 8, 2014 by
Time’s Op-Ed Relies on Flawed “Landmark Study”(?), and “Comprehensive Analysis”?
February 6, 2014 by
Here is the linke to “A Solution for Bad Teaching” http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/06/opinion/a-solution-for-bad-teaching.html?ref=opinion Here is what I have already written about the study now being called “landmark”: Northwestern President Publishes Study About Northwestern And the National Bureau of Economic Research Publishes It? and Is The Atlantic Right to Report on a Report the Way it Did? Here […]
Duke University Professor Calls It Like It Is
January 15, 2014 by
Michael Allen Gillespie, a professor of political science and of philosophy at Duke University, has written a revealing piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education. I recommend it for its honesty about grading (or not really grading) and about professors “cheating” students by not fairly grading them in a way that shows them what they […]
Political Science Courses – Content Deflation? Just How Bad Is It?
January 6, 2014 by
I recently had a discussion with someone who felt that I might be overreacting to changes in education. My friend felt that it was important to interest students in a subject even if that meant teaching them less. Of course, we agreed that it is a matter of degree. My friend worried that I was wrong about […]
New York Times Editorial Series on Education – They Don’t See the Elephant in the Classroom
December 15, 2013 by
(Go here to see the newest piece, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/opinion/sunday/in-math-and-science-the-best-fend-for-themselves.html?hp&rref=opinion ) I am concerned that even the Times doesn’t see the problem. Maybe they just have trouble believing how bad the integrity problem is. Anyway, I commented on their recommendations, and I made a general comment. Here they are. On the Times recommendation for more government support As a […]
“U.S. Colleges Finding Ideals Tested Abroad” in Today’s New York Times Article
December 12, 2013 by
Here is the link http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/12/education/american-colleges-finding-ideals-are-tested-abroad.html?hp&target=comments#commentsContainer I made a comment that refers to a paper by Clark Kerr that I just read and will post a link to in my Reisman, Kerr, etc… page. Here is the comment. “Though some academics are giving these subtle ethical problems some serious thought, the general public, when reading articles like […]
Insightful Commenter on New York Times Economix Blog
December 12, 2013 by
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/as-have-been-harvards-most-common-grade-for-20-years/#postComment is the link to the page where someone posted the following excellent description of how many students feel when they get into an elite school. It gives an important insight which I commented on in my reply, which is below. (It is especially important to note the final sentence of this person’s comment.) “Maybe the […]
Jeffrey J. Williams on “The Great Stratification”
December 5, 2013 by
Professor Williams has helped shine a light on some of the inequites within the professoriate itself. (See http://chronicle.com/article/The-Great-Stratification/143285/ ) I think these inequities are important to know and understand. The fact that there is so much stratification within higher education is revealing. It makes clearer who faculty are, in spite of who they may seem to be, who they […]
More on Columbia University’s Report on Educational Quality
My view of Columbia’s teacher college went down even further as I read their report on teachinng quality and course rigor. I added this comment to the Chronicle of Higher Education. It points out some serious flaws – so serious that I’m a little shocked. “I want to add two more observations to what has […]