Galactic threats to higher education and software development
It's the start of another school year, and evidently there was a sufficient threat to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to bring the Doctor openly to campus. But I'm not so sure he's going to succeed, because though there are some scurrilous rumors the attached recording came from the recent Google-Verizon talks, I suspect the […]
Colbert “University”
At the bottom of this entry is the embedded 7-minute clip from Wednesday's Stephen Colbert Report segment on college. As usual, the Colbert Report writers neatly skewered for-profit scams, and then Colbert interviewed Andrew Hacker, one of the authors of Higher Education?. I will have more to say about Hacker and Claudia Dreifus's book next […]