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Category Archives: Higher Education
Five roads to nowhere
The venerable New York Times gave some print real estate to Harold Levy, Chancellor of New York City schools for a few years, who offers his advice for “Five Ways to Fix America’s Schools.” Here is the lede: AMERICAN education was … Continue reading
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The end of the university
A fascinating Op-Ed in the New York Times: GRADUATE education is the Detroit of higher learning. Most graduate programs in American universities produce a product for which there is no market (candidates for teaching positions that do not exist) and develop skills … Continue reading
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Is the ivory tower basement still college?
With a lot of focus on college preparation and readiness as early as middle school (including the charter on whose board I serve), it’s disquieting, but probably important, to read another view. Here is a piercing article from The Atlantic on the “destructive myth” … Continue reading
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