Higher education and the wrong battle
At Education Sector, Kevin Carey (a 4 out of 5 in my book) has an institutionalist lens that is sometimes incisive (4.5 out of 5) , sometimes frustrating (2 of 5), and occasionally both. Such as his complaint yesterday about the “Higher Ed Lobby” (my quotation marks, which are probably 1 out of 5 on […]
Need new brain. Or a walk.
I think I got a bunch of stuff done this morning, but my brain really is not working right now. Either I need a brain transplant or I need to get out of my office, walk somewhere for coffee or something else of sustenance, and revive. I’ll try the second, in hopes that I don’t […]
Chemistry or test-prep?
In Palm Beach County, high schools are ditching real science for FCAT prep. And I thought the election results were the most depressing news of the morning!
Bad signs in Kenya
According to the Chronicle of Higher Ed, Kenyan Universities Remain Closed as Fighting Worsens. Universities had already delayed the opening of the current term, and when schools are closed in civil conflict, lots of other things are inevitably shut down as well. Coverage by PRI’s The World provides more information about the conflict in Kenya […]
Alfie Kohn and Diane Ravitch agree!
This week, the zeitgeist in education news is paying students for test scores, as in the Baltimore Sun article yesterday or the USA Today story, but so-called incentive programs have been in the news before and criticized before: See criticisms of Pizza Hut’s “Book It” program or Barry Schwartz’s column last July, which scored New […]