By John Warner. At some point, the University of California-Berkeley is going to need a bailout.
Writing at Deadspin, and using a vulgarism for the condition California’s flagship university finds itself in, Patrick Redford outlines the albatross that has become the California Golden Bears’ football stadium. More...

By John Warner. As one becomes deeply involved in an issue – becomes expert, if you will – it’s hard not to see all the ways that the broader public discussion of this issue with which one has become conversant gets distorted and developed in unproductive ways. More...

By John Warner. So the University of Michigan is going to be experimenting with a “text-analysis” tool added into their existing M-Write digital/algorithmic writing pedagogy initiative, which is meant to integrate more writing into large courses, particularly in the sciences. More...

By John Warner. When anthropologist Lauren Herckis tried to figure out why new teaching strategies developed at Carnegie Mellon were not being widely adopted, she found that one of the reasons instructors were hesitant was because their “No. 1 challenge was to make sure that they were not an embarrassment to [themselves] in front of students.” More...

By John Warner. Writing at EdSurge, Jason Palmer, a General Partner at an outfit called New Markets Venture Partners, has declared himself “optimistic about the next wave of education technology.” More...