Many years of graduate education have trained me to rely on demonstrable evidence before reaching a conclusion -- evidence confirmed often enough from a sufficient number of reliable sources to ratify a belief. More...
14 janvier 2020
14 janvier 2020
Crisis and Recovery for Universities in Hong Kong
Can Hong Kong and its universities recover?
Universities have played an important role in social movements around the world. Some became bastions of reform. Some led uprisings. Others were pulled into uprisings that devastated the cities in which they were located. Some cities and their universities have come out of it stronger; others never fully recovered. Among the earliest were the University of Paris Uprising of 1229 and the Beijing May 4 Movement of 1919 led by Peking and other universities. More...
13 janvier 2020
Poised for Another Decade of Ed-Tech "Debacles"
By John Warner. Over the holiday break, two pieces of writing coursed through my Twitter feed in successive order. More...
13 janvier 2020
I Want to Take a Class
By John Warner. I have a specific class in mind, Theater 288: Reading Hamilton -- Representation & History in the American Musical. More...
13 janvier 2020
Is Writing to Text the Only "High-Quality" Curriculum?
By John Warner. Some bad notions of what helps students turn into good writers have been enshrined in curricular standards. We should root them out. More...
13 janvier 2020
Continuing Adventures in Ungrading
By John Warner. I suppose because I have written about ungrading and grading contracts here in the past, I am occasionally taken as some kind of authority on the practice. More...
13 janvier 2020
Books to Give the Educator in Your Life for the Holidays
By John Warner. Books make great gifts. Some personal recommendations. More...
13 janvier 2020
Budgets Are a Reflection of Values
By John Warner. Approximately 37 percent of the operating budget of the University of Cincinnati comes from student tuition and fees. This is double the share provided by the state of Ohio (17 percent). More...
13 janvier 2020
Taking Stock of 2019
By Steven Mintz. The Great Recession was like an earthquake that rattles the ground and then subsides -- yet leaves the landscape transformed. Over a decade after its onset, the Great Recession fundamentally altered American higher education. More...
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