I’ve got a bad feeling about this, Obey
So Rep. Obey (Wisconsin) is proposing to pay for a $10B boost to school districts in part by stripping hundreds of millions of dollars from RTTT and TIF? According to Ed Week reporters, the total offset from this move would be about 8% of the total cost, less than $1B, so I don’t really buy […]
Accessibility and the e-reader
A brief note about the federal government’s warning on college distribute of e-readers and students with disabilities: the concern is warranted, and it’s much better for the warning to come now than to come after colleges and universities spend millions of dollars (or require students to spend millions of dollars) without the due diligence needed. […]
Botched credit hours and blotted copybooks
A week ago, Ed Sector’s Forrest Hinton asked six questions about higher-education accountability. Below are the questions, my quick responses, and some discussion about the fallout from this month’s hearings on accreditation and for-profit institutions:
The value of college IV
In comments over the past few weeks, Glen McGhee has been doing a lot of work making the argument for a credentialist lens for higher education. And two weeks ago, Jose Vilson’s Memorial Day blog entry raised the perennial question of what we’re supposed to be educating our children for. So let me address the […]
Collegiate Lying Assessment?
I should be asleep, but it’s summer, we’ve released our teenage son from stricter bedtimes, and he is practicing sax. Most of the tasks on my plate require a little more concentration than I can muster after midnight, so I will write instead about lying, or whether we can tell much about someone’s skills when […]