Daily Archives: 5:39 AM
The Lake Wobegon Effect? Or deceit by omission?
Laurie H. Rogers – In Garrison Keillor’s fictional Lake Wobegon, “all of the women are strong, all of the men are good looking, and all the children are above average.”
Embattled professor resigns Harvard post
Marc Hauser, a well-known Harvard psychology professor who has been on leave since an internal investigation found him guilty of eight counts of scientific misconduct, is leaving the university. … Read more
Open University sets full-time fees at £5,000
The Open University will charge new full-time students from England £5,000 from September 2012. This will make it very competitive with most other universities which are charging considerably more, but… Read more
Randi Weingarten: Rolling Up Our Sleeves to Improve Teacher Quality
“The quality of an education system cannot exceed the quality of its teachers and principals, since student learning is ultimately the product of what goes on in classrooms.” – From… Read more
Test yourself on NAEP geography questions
Valerie Strauss Here are some geography questions that students in fourth, eighth and twelfth grades were asked on the 2010 National Assessment of Educational Program. The newly released test results… Read more
Will college bubble burst from public subsidies?
Michael Barone – When governments want to encourage what they believe is beneficial behavior, they subsidize it. Sounds like good public policy. But there can be problems. Behavior… Read more
Naomi Schaefer Riley: Academia’s Crisis of Irrelevance
As more students question rising college costs, professors defend useless research and their lack of teaching. ‘Crisis of Confidence Threatens College.” So went a headline in the this… Read more
College budget cutbacks go outside the box
When students and professors return to budget-slashing colleges this fall, they might notice things missing, such as limitless piles of food on their plates, land-line phones and trash pickup. At… Read more
Students at Risk – Of What?
Among the problems facing American public education, probably none is more pervasive, persistent, or pressing than teaching children whose attempts at learning result in failure. Sometimes bearing such labels as… Read more
Internet spells end of the school report
Doctors should send emails instead of writing referral letters and schools should stop printnig reports, a Number 10 adviser said yesterday.
