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25 mai 2013

U.S. Releases 'The Condition of Education 2013'

The U.S. Education Department today published its annual compendium of all the data you'd want to know about American education: "The Condition of Education 2013." The report, published by the National Center for Education Statistics, includes special focus sections on the employment rates of young adults (noting that those with bachelor's degree are far likelier than high school graduates to be employed) and on various aspects of student debt. Read more...

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25 mai 2013

Where the Citations Are

By Elizabeth Gibney for Times Higher Education. Countries outside the world's elite university systems are better at transforming research capacity into citations, a report suggests. While the U.S. and the U.K. are good at converting research inputs into outputs and are improving, the likes of Denmark, Switzerland, France and Ireland are making the most of their resources and improving efficiency at a greater rate, the study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has found. Read more...

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25 mai 2013

Higher Ed in 2018

By Jeb Bush and Randy Best. Rising tuition, declining government subsidies, stagnant endowments, and increased competition are challenging higher education like never before. College and university leaders are struggling to understand where these changes will lead and how they can make higher education more affordable, more accessible, and of greater quality for an increasingly diverse and aspiring student. Based on our interaction with university leaders and policy makers, we believe that the timeline for transformational change has shortened to five years. During this time, higher education will have moved from a provider-driven model to a consumer-driven one and, in so doing, upend a system that had endured for centuries. Read more...

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25 mai 2013

Crowdsourcing the Curriculum

By Michael P. Ryan. Undergraduate students should join professors in selecting the content of courses taught in the humanities. This is the conclusion I came to after teaching Humanities on Demand: Narratives Gone Viral, a pilot course at Duke University that not only introduced students to some of the critical modes humanists employ to analyze new media artifacts, but also tested the viability of a new, interactive course design. One semester prior to the beginning of class, we asked 6,500 undergraduates -- in other words, Duke's entire undergraduate student body -- to go online and submit materials they believed warranted examination in the course. Read more...

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25 mai 2013

Motivation Matters

By Paul Fain. Academic preparation isn’t the only factor in college readiness. Also helping to determine whether students get to graduation are social behaviors, like whether they show up for class, engage with professors and make eye contact. A new assessment from the Education Testing Service (ETS) seeks to measure those non-academic variables. Read more...

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25 mai 2013

Concerns on Loan Denials

By Libby A. Nelson. Since the Education Department changed its underwriting standards for loans to students’ parents in 2011, 400,000 parents have been denied the loans. The denials have fallen disproportionately on historically black colleges and universities, whose leaders pleaded with the Obama administration Tuesday to reconsider the policy.
“Our students and families are in crisis now,” Michael Lomax, president and chief executive officer of the United Negro College Fund, told Education Department officials Tuesday. Lomax spoke at a hearing at which department officials sought input in advance of a new round of negotiated rule-making, which will consider underwriting standards for PLUS loans, among many other topics. Read more...

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25 mai 2013

Free Apps

By Kevin Kiley. There are quite a few things that might make the average high school senior think twice before applying to Reed College. There's the lack of intercollegiate football and Greek organizations that many students tend to associate with college. There's the reputation as a rigorous intellectual environment. There's the refusal to participate in popular rankings like those of U.S. News and World Report. There's the "Why Reed?" application essay, which has a history of eliciting eccentric responses. On top of all that, the college's sticker price is $55,920 for the upcoming academic year. Read more...

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25 mai 2013

Doctoring the Doctorate

By Colleen Flaherty. Hoping to help Ph.D.s secure jobs and challenge old notions about academe, Stanford University will encourage and pay for humanities graduate students to pursue careers as high school teachers, starting next year. The plan consists of a new course offering that will expose graduate students to humanities issues in high school pedagogy and curriculum, and a promise by the School of Humanities and Sciences to fully fund each humanities Ph.D. admitted to the competitive Stanford Teacher Education Program in the Graduate School of Education. Read more...

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25 mai 2013

Education in the Liberal Arts

By Kevin Kiley. Colorado College has everything one would expect at a traditional liberal arts college: small classes, prestigious faculty, high-achieving peers, a beautiful campus and an innovative curriculum with majors in the humanities, arts and sciences. Unlike most colleges, but true to the liberal arts tradition, Colorado College doesn't offer a major in business.
But it now offers one in education. That a college would add an education major is not necessarily noteworthy. In the past few decades, numerous small colleges that once exclusively offered majors in traditional liberal arts disciplines have added professional and vocational programs in the face of decreased student demand and increased competition from public universities. Read more...

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25 mai 2013

EdX signs up 15 new members

By Chris Parr. The US massive open online course platform edX has signed up 15 more universities, more than doubling its number of higher education partners. The not-for-profit company, founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, now has 27 universities on board. The latest recruits to the “xConsortium” include its first Asian-based institutions, along with universities from the US, Australia, Germany and Belgium. In addition, Stockholm’s Karolinska Institutet has become the first university in Sweden to offer Moocs. Read more...

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