By Michael Feldstein. Too often, our conversations about education are weirdly bifurcated. On the one hand, we talk about big problems—helping massive numbers of people improve their economic status, educating a sophisticated citizenry, solving societal equity problems, and so on. More...
Améliorer les capacités d’apprentissage reste un enjeu majeur pour les organismes de formation chargés d’accompagner les personnes les plus en difficultés. En s’appuyant sur des méthodes d’éducabilité cognitive ou de remédiation cognitive, les équipes pédagogiques rendent la formation plus efficace. Il s’agit donc pour le formateur, non pas de se centrer sur une didactique des contenus, mais d’enseigner des processus d’acquisition de connaissances et de compétences. Plus...
As graduation nears for many college students, the job hunt is officially on. And, as if the pressure to land that first gig weren’t high enough, today’s grads are now facing competition from a new quarter: robots. More...
It’s April. Eleventh-graders and their parents are getting advice on summer college visits. Having studied this phenomenon as a parent and writer for a long time, I sense trouble. Experts are taking the process too seriously, threatening family harmony and mental health. More...
Six Nissan North America executives behind the automaker's "Fix It Right the First Time" initiative invited me to join their freewheeling after-dinner chat. What sounded like a great idea emerged: raising the degree status of service technicians. More...
Students often arrive at college believing that social activities and alcohol are expected to go together. They think college will be a time to party, experiment and escape many of the rules they may have lived with at home. More...
Every year, the Department of Education issues billions of dollars in student loans. And every year, outside companies are contracted to collect on those loans. The loans themselves are the subject of fierce debate among the higher-education crowd—but how they are collected tends to draw the most ire. More...
Facebook is struggling with a serious scandal in which it says that “malicious actors” took advantage of search tools on its platform, allowing them to identify and collect data on most of the 2 billion people around the world who use Facebook. That, of course, includes a lot of children. More...
What differentiates the Mayfield Innovation Center from traditional classrooms is evident not just in the virtual reality technology, the 3-D printers or the open architecture that make the two-floor, 30,000-square-foot building seem less of a secondary school than a Google satellite office. More...
I daily take in and reflect on student expectations of our university. I speak with parents and guardians less frequently, though I owe them a great deal. While the step-out-of-the-nest for the student is a “big deal,” it is also a challenging transition for parents. Here is a catalog of parental ponderings. More...
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