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 [...]
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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 — 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Technical expertise is everywhere. Good judgment is not.
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Blogging. For many, the term evokes thoughts of cringe-worthy diary-esque posts by angry teenagers, or bland breakfast tweets by bored acquaintances. But in many fields, including the sciences, law and librarianship, blogging has become vital to the advancement of scholarship. Blogs provide outlets for scholarly exchanges and expression of ideas that might otherwise be lost [...]
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This post also appears on my personal blog, thedaysman.com, but seemed appropriate for this blog as well. —————- Thank you for bringing your concern about your grade to my attention. The grade has been changed to the grade you felt you deserved, and was in fact the grade you earned. The discrepancy you noted regarding [...]
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It’s no surprise that administrators at the Association of American Colleges and Universities’ 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’t save us.
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Some of my graduate students have been thinking about the future of online education, particularly from the students’ perspective. I’m intrigued by Ric’s observation that the learner of the future will still be, well, a learner. As probably the youngest of the four students considering this question, he indicates he is still learning new tricks [...]
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a wired classroom
