IHE column on the Spellings comission draft
If you followed the link to my blog after reading my Inside Higher Ed column, How To Succeed in Report Writing without Really Making Sense, welcome! Feel free to continue debating the ideas in the comments here. And look around—I write blog entries on education policy, academic freedom, my own research, and various other matters. […]
Increasing graduation rates, Part I
I’ve written enough recently about measuring graduation—as others have noted, it’s time to talk about improving it. My perspective is that one must understand the difference between in-school and out-of-school pressures on students. Students are both pushed out of school in different ways and also pulled into other things. With that in mind, the first […]