May 2012
7 posts
The Best American High Schools →
cheatsheet:
lostreib:
I’ve been doing lists — big magazine package lists and little one-hit-wonder online lists — for nearly six years. It’s a weird niche to have, certainly.
Anyways, this list is undoubtedly the one into which I have put the most personal time and effort. I’m very proud of it for many reasons. I realize most of Tumblr may not be intensely interested in high school rankings,...
Bertrand Russell on the Ten Commandments of... →
nevver:
Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light.
Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon...
April 2012
16 posts
“The successful scientist thinks like a poet but works like a bookkeeper.”
– Legendary Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson adds to the best definitions of science. (via explore-blog)
University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science... →
Can a computer score touchdowns? No. Case closed.
WatchHigher ed is for suckers, claims inarticulate blowhard who repeats himself, spouting dull disprovable platitudes. “Live”?
“Education is what someone tells you to do and learning is what you do for...”
– Skillshare founder Mike Karnjanaprakorn opening the 2012 Penny Conference.
Also seeSir Ken Robinson on changing educational paradigms and lifelong learning.
(via explore-blog)
“In conventional schools, students learn so that they can get good grades. My...”
– Harvard’s Tony Wagner, author of Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World, ponders how we can educate the next Steve Jobs.
Wagner’s insights echo John Seely Brown’s in the excellent A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant...
Looking to get a little smarter, a lot cheaper? A... →
shortformblog:
Coursera joins a raft of ambitious online projects aimed at making higher education more accessible and affordable. Many of these ventures, however, simply post entire lectures on the web, with no interactive component. Others strive to create brand-new universities from scratch.
Founders Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng say Coursera will be different because professors from top...
Lifehacker.com: How to Better Manage Your Student... →
“Colleges are not looking for the well-rounded kid; they want the well-rounded...”
– A college test-preparation and admissions expert tells us you average, well-rounded white girls may have an especially tough time getting into college this year. Sorry about that! (via newsweek)
March 2012
4 posts
Wonklife: The college premium →
The numbers show a conflicted yet striking pattern. Real earnings for men, 25 to 34, with bachelor’s degrees are down 19 percent since 2000, and for female college graduates of that age they are down 16 percent since 2003.
Yet the wage differential between college graduates and high school…
February 2012
12 posts
Where More Upper-Middle Class Students are Heading... →
A New Republic Contest: Grade One of Rick... →
“It is our responsibility as lawmakers and educators to make this system work....”
– Barack Obama
Notice he’s not talking about just four-year college. What a snob.
(via soupsoup)
“President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a...”
– Rick Santorum at an Americans for Prosperity forum in Troy, Mich., Saturday. Read more. (via washingtonpoststyle)
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...
January 2012
20 posts
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...
“It’s no wonder President Obama wants every kid to go to college …...”
– Rich Santorum, reasonably explaining how higher education is a massive conspiracy against America.
Wired.com: Algorithmic Education (Including the... →
Gizmodo.com: Apple iPad Textbooks 101 →
Watch92y:
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...
kaleidoscope: Antielitism Left and Right →
lareviewofbooks:
Image © Paul Bausch onfocus.com
One of the most intriguing and valuable books I’ve read in 2011 was Catherine Liu’s American Idyll: Academic Antielitism as Cultural Critique (University of Iowa Press). We have billionaire antielitists, tenured antielitists,…