February 19, 2012 • 100 notes • • tetw

To College, or Not To College?

tetw:

What higher education is really about…

***Update: Another article that definitely belongs on this list:
College for $99 a Month by Kevin Carey - How online education could be great for students - and catastrophic for universities.***

The University Has No Clothes by Daniel B. Smith - A critical review of the spate of prominent attacks aimed at college education.

Learning by Degress by Rebecca Mead - A strong argument against measuring the value of a degree in purely economic terms.

In the Basement of the Ivory Tower by Professor X - An anonymous instructor at a low-end college makes the case that university isn’t for everyone.

How I Got my D.I.Y. Degree by William Wimsatt - The author offers an interesting if impractical programme for lifelong self education.

Lost in the Meritocracy by Walter Kirn - A more personal view from a survivor of one of America’s top educational institutions.

February 16, 2012 • 427 notes • • ilovecharts
ilovecharts: 50 Best Student Cities in the World 2012

ilovecharts:

50 Best Student Cities in the World 2012

February 15, 2012 • 26 notes • • catladysoul

catladysoul:

Rutgers did a video on me and another blogger and it is unintentionally the funniest video I’ve seen ever like on a snl skit level i’M dying right now lmaoadadad

Go Scarlet Knight Fashion Bloggers!

(Altho: down with generic mellow-guitar music bed)

Best line: “You cant really buy makeup in thrift stores, because that would be disgusting.”

February 7, 2012 • 586 notes • • nevver
nevver: History Simulators, Ray Fenwick

nevver:

History Simulators, Ray Fenwick

February 6, 2012 • 732 notes • • nevver
nevver: I got smarts

nevver:

I got smarts

February 1, 2012 • 4 notes • • thenewrepublic
thenewrepublic: Are U.S. News and World Report’s rankings corrupting higher education? “Research suggests that whatever flaws the rankings may have, schools would be foolish to ignore them. That’s because, according to two studies, a higher rank attracts more elite students. A 2004 study examined the impact of the U.S. News rankings, which (during the time of much of the study’s data set) ranked the top 25 schools and assigned the others to quartiles. The study found that when schools moved to higher quartiles in the ranks, they increased the number of incoming students from the top 10 percent of their high school class and lowered their acceptance rate.” — Nathan Pippenger, “How U.S. News Rankings Are Corrupting Higher Education” The U.S. News ranking may not be a universally-accepted measure of quality, but that doesn’t seem to matter to elite students trying to choose a college. Apparently, for many of the college administrators trying to attract those students, it doesn’t matter either. So what gives? Photo courtesy of thecollegesolution.com.

thenewrepublic:

Are U.S. News and World Report’s rankings corrupting higher education?

“Research suggests that whatever flaws the rankings may have, schools would be foolish to ignore them. That’s because, according to two studies, a higher rank attracts more elite students. A 2004 study examined the impact of the U.S. News rankings, which (during the time of much of the study’s data set) ranked the top 25 schools and assigned the others to quartiles. The study found that when schools moved to higher quartiles in the ranks, they increased the number of incoming students from the top 10 percent of their high school class and lowered their acceptance rate.”

— Nathan Pippenger, “How U.S. News Rankings Are Corrupting Higher Education”

The U.S. News ranking may not be a universally-accepted measure of quality, but that doesn’t seem to matter to elite students trying to choose a college.

Apparently, for many of the college administrators trying to attract those students, it doesn’t matter either. So what gives?

Photo courtesy of thecollegesolution.com.

January 29, 2012 • 100 notes • • tetw

To College, or Not To College?

tetw:

What higher education is really about…

The University Has No Clothes by Daniel B. Smith - A critical review of the spate of prominent attacks aimed at college education.

Learning by Degress by Rebecca Mead - A strong argument against measuring the value of a degree in purely economic terms.

In the Basement of the Ivory Tower by Professor X - An anonymous instructor at a low-end college makes the case that university isn’t for everyone.

How I Got my D.I.Y. Degree by William Wimsatt - The author offers an interesting if impractical programme for lifelong self education.

Lost in the Meritocracy by Walter Kirn - A more personal view from a survivor of one of America’s top educational institutions.

January 26, 2012 • 11 notes •
It’s no wonder President Obama wants every kid to go to college … The indoctrination that occurs in American universities is one of the keys to the left holding and maintaining power in America. And it is indoctrination. If it was the other way around, the ACLU would be out there making sure there wasn’t one penny of government dollars going to colleges and universities, right?
Rich Santorum, reasonably explaining how higher education is a massive conspiracy against America.
January 26, 2012 • 4,511 notes • • gifmovie
We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves.

We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves.

(via itscandidlycara)

January 24, 2012 •

Wired.com: Algorithmic Education (Including the Mathematics of Cramming)

January 19, 2012 • 22 notes • • shortformblog

shortformblog:

iBooks Author sounds like it could be the next-generation InDesign, or a souped-up Pages. God, we hope it’s the former and not the latter. (via)

January 19, 2012 •

Gizmodo.com: Apple iPad Textbooks 101

January 16, 2012 • 239 notes • • brooklynmutt

(via cheatsheet)

January 12, 2012 • 32 notes • • 92Y

92y:

Paul Krugman: The Economic Crisis Will Permanently Scar New Graduates
“How long does it you as an individual to recover from the fact that you happen to graduate from college into a bad job market? And the answer is forever. It scars your entire work career. You will never recover from the fact. So the kids that are graduating into the 2011 job market are never going to have the lives they should have had. And this is going on. At the moment, it does not look like the 2012 job market is going to be very much better than the 2011 job market.”
—Paul Krugman with Jeff Greenfield at 92Y March 29, 2011.

Paul Krugman returns with Jeff Greenfield on April 29. Get your tickets now.

January 9, 2012 • 57 notes • • cheatsheet
cheatsheet: Since men are not angels, it was inevitable that state and local education authorities would dumb down the tests to make themselves look good to the feds and to the voters. 10 Years Later: How No Child Left Behind corrupted education in the U.S.  Photo: Jeff Hutchens / Getty Images

cheatsheet:

Since men are not angels, it was inevitable that state and local education authorities would dumb down the tests to make themselves look good to the feds and to the voters.

10 Years Later: How No Child Left Behind corrupted education in the U.S. 

Photo: Jeff Hutchens / Getty Images