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...
Read Moreby Andrew | Oct 22, 2018 | 21st Century Skills, Accreditation, Authentic Assessment, Competency-Based Education, Cost of Education, Education Reform, Feedback, Higher Education, Politics and Dysfunction, Working World | 0 |
I am not a lawyer. I don’t even play one on TV. I’m a literal-minded engineer who loves education...
Read Moreby Andrew | Jul 18, 2018 | 21st Century Skills, Challenges to Assessment, Competency-Based Education, Cost of Education, E-learning, Higher Education, Information Literacy, Politics and Dysfunction, Working World | 0 |
It is now widely accepted that the job of college is to get you a job. While schools are talking...
Read Moreby Andrew | Sep 27, 2013 | Competency-Based Education, Cost of Education, E-learning, Uncategorized, Unschooling | 0 |
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Read Moreby Andrew | Jul 17, 2013 | 21st Century Skills, Authentic Assessment, Competency-Based Education, Cost of Education, Education Reform, Feedback, Pedagogy, Uncategorized | 0 |
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 Moreby Andrew | Jun 12, 2013 | 21st Century Skills, AACSB, Accreditation, Challenges to Assessment, Competency-Based Education, Cost of Education, Culture, Education Reform, Higher Education, Outcomes Assessment, Politics and Dysfunction, Uncategorized, Working World | 0 |
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 Moreby Andrew | Apr 19, 2013 | Analytics, Challenges to Assessment, Competency-Based Education, Cost of Education, E-learning, Higher Education, K12, Outcomes Assessment, Politics and Dysfunction, Rubrics, Uncategorized, Working World | 0 |
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 Moreby Andrew | Jan 27, 2013 | Authentic Assessment, Challenges to Assessment, Competency-Based Education, Cost of Education, E-learning, Formative Assessment, Higher Education, Politics and Dysfunction, Uncategorized | 0 |
My daughter is in seventh grade. She’s reading Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff (and that Homer guy), and enjoying it. She was sitting on a Saturday morning (after a good shot of cartoons) reading – every...
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