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		<title>A Trojan Horse in “Higher” Education &#124; Front Porch Republic</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The life and health of the world—that one value of which Wendell Berry wrote long ago in “Discipline and Hope”—have not improved since the advent of standardized testing or the opening of universities to everyone with a pulse. And still every year hordes of credulous young people are told to part with good money, most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wallymetts.com&amp;blog=5471758&amp;post=253&amp;subd=wallymetts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A college education is your best bet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[a new Georgetown University study that analyzed the earning outcomes of 171 types of college degrees found that every single one generates a positive return &#8212; even after college costs and foregone earnings are taken into account. It found that, overall, college graduates make 84% more over a lifetime than their high school-educated counterparts. via [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wallymetts.com&amp;blog=5471758&amp;post=251&amp;subd=wallymetts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>College is a waste of time</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 02:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dale Stephans I left college two months ago because it rewards conformity rather than independence, competition rather than collaboration, regurgitation rather than learning and theory rather than application. Our creativity, innovation and curiosity are schooled out of us. Failure is punished instead of seen as a learning opportunity. We think of college as a stepping-stone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wallymetts.com&amp;blog=5471758&amp;post=244&amp;subd=wallymetts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>alternative college concept</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 17:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Mr. Liston, a tall man with a shaved head and an inviting gaze, made his pitch: He was calling his project Sphere College. The curriculum would be individualized. It would focus on helping students identify their passions and learn how to use them in the world. It would be delivered in three phases, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wallymetts.com&amp;blog=5471758&amp;post=241&amp;subd=wallymetts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking the Christian college communication curriculum</title>
		<link>http://wallymetts.com/2011/04/02/rethinking-the-christian-college-communication-curriculum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 14:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technical expertise is everywhere.  Good judgment is not. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wallymetts.com&amp;blog=5471758&amp;post=229&amp;subd=wallymetts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the new dark ages</title>
		<link>http://wallymetts.com/2010/09/16/the-new-dark-ages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post also appears on my personal blog, thedaysman.com The Chronicle of Higher Education recently asked scholars and illustrators to answer the question “What will be the big idea of the next decade, and why?” First off, Jaron Lanier from Microsoft says it will be the end of human specialness. A “nerd” religion is evolving [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wallymetts.com&amp;blog=5471758&amp;post=224&amp;subd=wallymetts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If you build it, will they come?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: This is a presentation I gave in February 2010 at the 27th Annual Academic Chairperson&#8217;s Conference. It&#8217;s fairly long, by blog standards, the equivalent of six double spaced pages. A retrospective analysis of the launch of a new online only program, it discusses what I call the Field of Dreams model of program development. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wallymetts.com&amp;blog=5471758&amp;post=176&amp;subd=wallymetts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>too little too late</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no surprise that administrators at the Association of American Colleges and Universities&#8217; conference this month felt that expectations about research and tenure were interfering with the quality of learning. What is surprising is that the solutions proposed are so timid. Fewer lectures will help but it won&#8217;t save us. Several speakers argued that the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wallymetts.com&amp;blog=5471758&amp;post=158&amp;subd=wallymetts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Revamp copy editing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a quote from Tim McGuire at Arizona State on copy editing in the new world. The whole thing is worth a read- with several tips on how it can/should/must be handled at newspapers. Quote from lecture after the jump. I don’t want to end this entry without addressing the role journalism education has to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wallymetts.com&amp;blog=5471758&amp;post=135&amp;subd=wallymetts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>teaching without textbooks.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Campaign to Reduce College Textbook Costs, the cost of textbooks is rising at four times the rate of inflation. The average student spends $900 a year on textbooks, about a forth of the cost of tuition and fees at a public community college or a fifth of the cost of a public [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wallymetts.com&amp;blog=5471758&amp;post=51&amp;subd=wallymetts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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