Can Corporations be Brave? Independence Blue Cross, Pearson, and Spotify
We know that corporations are people – at least in a legal sense. Some argue in a more...
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Why 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 MoreFrayed Logic. How America Makes Excuses for College Unemployment
In “Frayed Prospects, Despite a Degree” journalist Shaila Dewan takes the mainstream media’s sob-story around employment (and unemployment) to the front pages of the New York Times. Culprits aren’t named...
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 MoreA Mini-Collage of Colleges on a Collision Course…
Two stories today in Inside Higher Ed are all the more powerful for their proximity. Not only are mid-tier schools, without strong brands or big endowments, beginning to suffer, but the numbers of international students on...
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...
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 MoreWill the Rich Abandon Four-Year Degrees?
We all like to think we’re doing things first. We don’t like to ape others. David Copperfield wanted to be the hero of his own life. Is there such a thing as life plagiarism? Given the desire in Western life for...
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