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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Category: Challenges to Assessment
Response To The Changes in the SAT
Scott Warnock has a nice survey of the coverage of the SAT in his most recent When Falls the...
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 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...
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How much will I earn? How much will I learn? Cost vs. Value of Higher Education in the US
Like the forces of good and evil in a Harry Potter knock-off, educators and stakeholders are...
Read MoreCompetency Craziness: What do Katniss Everdeen and Rodney Dangerfield Have in Common?
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...
Read MoreGoing on Faith?
When I was an RA (Residential Assistant) in college my floor got new carpets over the summer. I walked out to my first floor meeting, with my 20 or 30 freshman who would soon be (already were) smoking cigarettes, consuming vast...
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A Short Indictment
I don’t know much about standardized testing; I took the PSAT and the SAT. I was a decent...
Read MoreMaking the Assessment Dagwood Sandwich: Complex Challenges Made Palatable
At home this summer we’ve been trying to keep some math and reading in the daily (weekly) routine – just so we don’t all forget how to subtract compound fractions. I gave my daughter a hard-ish multiplication...
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