By John Warner. Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. – Definitely not Albert Einstein. More...
20 juin 2018
20 juin 2018
Ed-Tech That Makes Me Want to Scream
By John Warner. I’m sure I lost count of how many times I shouted this during my childhood, running away from whomever was tormenting me in the moment. Teachers, parents, siblings, friends, strangers…all were on the receiving end of “Just leave me alone!” at one point or another. More...
20 juin 2018
An Act of Academic Self-Preservation
By John Warner. On the AP Literature exam in 1988, on an essay in which I was to compare and contrast two texts, I invented one of my sources. More...
20 juin 2018
The Wastefulness of College Competition
By John Warner. The result, a report titled, “Decoding the Cost of College: The Case for Transparent Financial Aid Award Letters” found a disturbing lack of consistency and transparency among the information institutions supply to prospective students on financial aid and college costs. More...
20 juin 2018
So Long, SAT Essay. Don't Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out
By John Warner. Last week, Yale announced it was dropping the requirement for applicants to submit either the SAT or ACT essay test. This comes after Harvard made the same choice this past March. The number of schools requiring the essay portion of these exams is rapidly dwindling, hopefully heading for zero if we have any luck at all. More...
20 juin 2018
Reject the Con: Education Is Infrastructure
By John Warner. When public institutions are subsumed by private interests, we all get fleeced. More...
20 juin 2018
The Theranos Story and Education Technology
By John Warner. Normally it’s Joshua Kim’s IHE blogger beat to read a book and go looking for the education parallels, but after tearing through Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by Wall St. Journal reporter John Carreyrou, I can’t resist infringing on his territory. More...
19 juin 2018
Preparing for Life After Graduate School
As graduate students, much of our life revolves around our education. We spend countless hours writing final essays and preparing for exams, to the point that our life as a student becomes second nature. If you’re like me, it is a part of your identity. More...
19 juin 2018
Calibrating Your Summer Speed: STEM Edition
Early in my graduate student career, I simultaneously dreaded summer and longed for it. I felt dread because finding a summer job is notoriously difficult where I live and longing because I, like many of my colleagues, needed a respite from the demands of the academic year. More...
19 juin 2018
Summer Professional Development
Final grades are submitted. Email inboxes have been cleaned out and offices have been tidied. Quiet has descended on campus. More...
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