The continuing strength of public beliefs in human-capital arguments
This afternoon Andy Rotherham’s blog entry highlighted unusually high agreement in a Lake Research survey with a generic statement about the economic rationale for improving high school academics. I’ve been sitting on some thoughts about Tyler Cowen, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, John Marsh, and others, but the general pattern here should not surprise anyone. Americans continue to […]
Dead administration walking and the higher ed Klein bottle myth
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a longtime college president found himself suspended and locked out of his office, obviously about to be fired after more than a year of controversy over the hiring and firing of a number of top administrators, including a few who blew the whistle on clear […]
Florida Universities: The Gathering
So Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos floated an idea for Florida public universities to swap professors and programs like baseball cards (or maybe Magic: The Gathering cards)? I’d been holding off commenting on another trial balloon sent up by Senator J.D. Alexander, the idea of switching USF Polytechnic (a small campus about which much has been discussed this […]
Shrewd ed-tech talk at Digital Campus
Digital Campus » Episode 78 – Death Knell for the Paywall is a wonderful example of why I listen to these folks every time another Digital Campus podcast comes out: you need to have a little knowledge of the subjects they’re discussing, but Dan, Amanda, Mills, and Tom (and any guests or irregulars) consistently provide perceptive […]
USDOE’s Friday surprise
I have no idea whether USDOE’s guidance today on the use of race in school assignments (blog by Ed Week’s Lesli Maxwell) is a common-sense extension of federal court decisions or a policy push, but the release of the guidelines on a Friday (which signals a “this is not news we want people to pay attention to”) is inconsistent […]