By Michael Stratford. A new analysis released Wednesday shows, in stark detail, how those increased costs to students are impairing the success of students in the state, particularly low-income students. Read more...
8 mars 2015
8 mars 2015
Feds Fire 5 Debt Collectors
By Michael Stratford. The U.S. Department of Education said Friday it will end contracts with five companies that collect defaulted federal student loans after finding they made “materially inaccurate representations” to struggling borrowers. Read more...
8 mars 2015
Jews Need Not Apply?
By Jake New. A University of California at Los Angeles student was nearly denied a position on the student government’s judicial board last month after student representatives questioned whether her ties to the Jewish community were a conflict of interest. Read more...
8 mars 2015
'Hunting Ground' Updated
By Jake New. The filmmakers behind “The Hunting Ground” -- a searing new documentary about how colleges mishandle cases of campus sexual assault -- have removed a statement featured in an earlier print of the film that claimed leaders at 35 institutions declined to be interviewed. Read more...
8 mars 2015
Accent on Bias
By Scott Jaschik. Rate My Professors is a student evaluation site that frustrates many professors, who say that the nonscientific standards leave faculty members open to unfair ratings.
Last month, a study documented the extent to which students use different sets of words (many of them with gender implications) to discuss their male and female professors. Now a new study looks at how students on Rate My Professors rate instructors who have Asian-sounding last names, and the results suggest that these instructors are getting significantly lower scores than those with other last names in Rate My Professors' categories of clarity and helpfulness. Read more...
8 mars 2015
When Less Is Less
By Scott Jaschik. Purdue University announced last week that it was it was replacing a "complicated" and outdated system for calculating how many paid days off employees would receive each year. But when employees actually counted up the days they could receive off in the old and new systems, many were dismayed to find that the "simplified" one was substantially less generous than the current one. Read more...
8 mars 2015
Administrator Pay Up 2.4%
By Scott Jaschik. The median base salary for senior leaders at colleges and universities has gone up 2.4 percent in 2014-15, the same as the year before. Read more...
8 mars 2015
Mise en place dans les académies de pôles de stages
Texte adressé aux rectrices et recteurs d'académie
Que ce soit pour leur orientation ou pour leur formation, tous les collégiens, lycéens professionnels, apprentis et étudiants des sections de technicien supérieur sont appelés à réaliser des périodes d'observation, des périodes de formation ou des stages en milieu professionnel.
L'importance de ces périodes d'immersion dans le monde professionnel a été récemment reconnue par l'introduction dans le code de l'éducation d'un chapitre nouveau, créé par la loi n° 2014-788 du 10 juillet 2014 tendant au développement, à l'encadrement des stages et à l'amélioration du statut des stagiaires et par son décret d'application n° 2014-1420 du 27 novembre 2014.
circulaire n° 2015-035 du 25-2-2015
MENESR - DGESCO A2-2
8 mars 2015
Confronting the Unexpected: Pink Time & Intrinsic Learning
By Brian Mathews. A few weeks ago I met up with Tim Baird (Geography, Virginia Tech) to tour the library and talk about pedagogy. We discussed a handful of topics and I tried to capture the spirit of our conversation in this post. Tim has received a lot of attention across campus (here and here) for his Pink Time concept. Let’s start with that. More...
8 mars 2015
Observations and changes for specs grading, 8 weeks in
By Robert Talbert. It’s hard to believe, but right now we are about 2/3 of the way through our semester, and with each week that passes, I’m getting more experience and insight with the use of specifications grading. Several people have mentioned on Twitter that they are following these updates with interest — and I don’t mind being the guy who goes first and makes all the mistakes. So here is an update on how things are going on the specs grading front. More...
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