The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
‘Badges’ Earned Online Pose Challenge to Traditional College Diplomas
http://chronicle.com/article/Badges-Earned-Online-Pose/130241/
I think the idea behind this concept is quite valid, provide a way for effort to be recognized (for instance, I have spent huge number of hours helping people on …
Physicists Seek To Lose The Lecture As Teaching Tool
http://www.npr.org/2012/01/01/144550920/physicists-seek-to-lose-the-lecture-as-teaching-tool
I was thinking to myself as I read this article that if I had exams that tested comprehension of the concepts (as opposed to rote memorization of formulas and facts) …
What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success
The Scandinavian country is an education superpower because it values equality more than excellence.
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/what-americans-keep-ignoring-about-finlands-school-success/250564/
A very interesting article on education. It seems the Fins (as I believe the Finnish people are …
Charter schools: Wave of the future?
http://schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/15/charter-schools-wave-of-the-future/?hpt=hp_bn2
I am not sure how I feel about charter schools. To the extent the cause public schools to improve, they are a good thing, but I am not wild about taking a large …
What real education reform looks like
Teachers unions aren’t the problem. Poverty and punitive funding formulas for poor schools are
http://www.salon.com/2011/12/09/what_real_education_reform_looks_like/singleton/
Staggeringly obvious, to me at least. If a school has comparatively fewer funds, it does a comparatively poorer job …
The higher ed bubble is bursting, so what comes next?
http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/12/sunday-reflection-higher-ed-bubble-bursting-so-what-comes-next/1969376
I like this quote best:
……homeownership and college aren’t causes of middle-class status, they’re markers for possessing the kinds of traits — self-discipline, the ability to defer gratification, etc.
Solving America’s teen sex problem
The Dutch have dramatically reduced adolescent pregnancies, abortions and STDs. What do they know that we don’t?
http://www.salon.com/2011/10/30/solving_americas_teen_sex_problem/singleton/
A very interesting article to me, though I suspect to the average American it would find it …
I found some emails in my outbox that I guess didn’t generate any responses, but I still think they are interesting so will post them here…
The bait and switch of school “reform”
Behind the new corporate agenda for education …
The Master’s as the New Bachelor’s
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/education/edlife/edl-24masters-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
It seems clear to me that we are having an education bubble exactly the same as the housing bubble. When I started my MBA more than 15 years ago it was purported to …
If students fail history, does it matter?
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/07/26/education.history.soboroff/index.html?hpt=hp_bn1
I took the quiz they had and while I got 100%, I was left to guess on 3 or 4 of the questions and only the context allowed me to narrow down …