This writing assignment is courtesy of my friend, Dr. Scott Warnock of Drexel University, who has raised the readership of my 1998 short story, “Zenith,” 100x by assigning it to his students in a Literature of...
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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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It is now widely accepted that the job of college is to get you a job. While schools are talking...
Read MoreCross-post from 11trees.com… Infographics are often quite silly. They try to boil down complex issues into simplistic graphics, with stick figures and stylized pie charts. The good ones, though, unveil some central truth...
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It might have been a particularly devious form of procrastination, or an excellent life hack, but...
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Scott Warnock has a nice survey of the coverage of the SAT in his most recent When Falls the...
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What would happen if kids took over their school, booted out the teachers, designed their own...
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We don’t always know what we want, or what we’ll really use. Visionaries can see what...
Read MoreI 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 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,...
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