How to Make $60k Tuition Work
Another great flag from Robert Gibson: father of a George Washington University student is suing...
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Category: Education Reform
US Higher Education’s Billion-Dollar Liability
I am not a lawyer. I don’t even play one on TV. I’m a literal-minded engineer who loves education...
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A Simple Metric to Align Higher Education with the Workplace
It is now widely accepted that the job of college is to get you a job. While schools are talking...
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Contingent Faculty & Departments: Who Will Be First Out the Door?
If you’re following the alleged slow collapse of American higher education, then it’s...
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What Happens When Kids Take Over School: Unschooling the Viking Way
What would happen if kids took over their school, booted out the teachers, designed their own...
Read MoreWhy Do We Hire Universities?
Two great reads today: Ev William’s, as reported by Wired: “Here’s the formula if you want to build a billion-dollar internet company,” he said. “Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long...
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Read MoreDesigned for Suffering: Student Retention Through Adaptive Pain
I was catching up on my reading and came across a wonderful essay on the economist Albert O. Hirschman (who I’d never heard of). My wife asked me what I was doing, and I said, “I’m reading this wonderful...
Read MoreWhat Can Higher Education Learn from the Disney Store?
What do students get for investing four to six years in higher education? The opportunity cost, the tuition dollars, the resulting debt? What is the return to taxpayers footing billions of federal and state dollars for loans,...
Read MoreMOOC Completion Rates – The Netflixing of Education (Part 1)
A new study reported in Inside Higher Ed takes a dim view to sub-10% completion rates in a sampling of MOOCs. How many people start watching Breaking Bad or Walking Dead on Netflix and don’t get engaged? Technology is...
Read MoreHow Amazon Will Replace Universities
How do we know what anyone knows? For school admissions, for hiring… An experiment in the second category is well under way in US K12. The Common Core has landed, with children and parents boycotting the tough new exams in...
Read MoreReimagining Our Education Landscape
A wonderful piece in today’s NYTs fills my mind with metaphors: A golf ball, struck 300 yards, starting off-course by only a degree…where does it wind up? What would happen if you corrected course after just 10 feet...
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