By Matt Reed. The New York Times had an unusually thoughtful and well-written piece this week (by Kristin O’Keefe) on the wide acceptance of the distinction between community college and “real” college. It’s heartbreaking in its content, and in the fact that it had to be written at all. Read more...15 février 2015
Standing Calvin on His Head
By Matt Reed. The New York Times had an unusually thoughtful and well-written piece this week (by Kristin O’Keefe) on the wide acceptance of the distinction between community college and “real” college. It’s heartbreaking in its content, and in the fact that it had to be written at all. Read more...Shocker: Quick Fix Doesn’t Work
By Matt Reed. There’s plenty to say about Politico’s story about Pearson, but I’ll leave most of it to people who are better versed in the details. Instead, I’ll pick out one lesson that jumped out at me, even though it was only one element of the story. Read more...“Dad, Is the University of Phoenix a Good School?”
By Matt Reed. This weekend The Boy and I went on a brief roadtrip in service of a robotics tournament that wound up being cancelled. (New England is under its third repent-your-sins storm warning in the past two weeks.) A few hours in the car each way gave us a chance for some free-ranging conversation. When you have hours of free-range conversation with a thirteen-year-old, you never know what you’re going to get. Read more...Are Louisiana’s Higher Ed Problems Viral?
By Oronte. Look with me, if you will, into the petri dish of Louisiana, for what it might predict for the future of American higher ed. Governor Bobby Jindal (R) has said he’ll cut state funding to higher education in the next fiscal year by $200 million to $300 million. Read more...Technology and Imagination
By Rosemarie Emanuele. Although the availability of graphing calculators is a great asset in teaching Calculus, I tell my students that one of my goals is for them to be able to leave my class with the ability of being able to imagine a function by just looking at it and doing simple calculations in their heads. Many of them come to Calculus never having been asked to do anything like that, but I ask them to consider how the slope or intercepts of a function come together with an equation to produce a picture that can just as easily appear in their minds as on the screen of a calculator.. Read more...Analysis of Concentrations of Latino College Students
Just 12 percent of colleges enroll 60 percent of all Latino undergraduates, according to a new analysis from Excelencia in Education and the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU). These colleges are deemed to be Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) under federal guidelines. Read more...
National Association of the Deaf Sues Harvard, MIT
The National Association of the Deaf on Thursday sued Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, saying the institutions violate the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 by not captioning all of the course content they make available online. Read more...
Report: Colleges That Divest Will Lose Money
A new report -- funded by the Independent Petroleum Association of America -- argues that colleges that sell holdings in fossil fuel companies are likely to pay a financial price for doing so. Read more...
Obama Explains Reversal on Plan to Tax 529 Accounts
President Obama said Friday that the popularity of 529 college savings accounts made him abandon a proposal to end the tax benefits of those accounts just days after first proposing it. "It wasn’t worth it for us to eliminate it," he said during remarks at Ivy Tech Community College in Indiana. Read more...
Berkeley Chancellor: Cal Isn't for 'Normal' Students
University of California at Berkeley is “faced once again with the threat of political interference in academic affairs,” its chancellor, Nicholas Dirks, wrote Friday in the university’s student newspaper. Dirks (photo at right) took exception to California Governor Jerry Brown’s contention that the state’s flagship university has closed its doors to “normal” people. Read more...
