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...With almost 40% of the nation's college-age students in some form of post-secondary education - and tuition costs as high as they've ever been - we don't really have a handle on what students learn at university. Or whether they're learning anything at all. Kevin Carey, policy director at the Washington think tank Education Sector, believes that many colleges do a bad job of 1) teaching students and 2) getting them to graduate. An essay he wrote for the December issue of Democracy is making waves in the higher-ed world because it describes...
...reason for that. There may be courses where literally there is one professor somewhere who is the only person who teaches a certain subject a certain way. At the same time, there is also a great deal of commonality. If you look at the courses students tend to take, almost everyone who goes to college takes a psychology class and takes an English class and takes a math class and takes basic science classes. Virtually no college assesses how much students learn in any subject and publishes data in a way that would allow you to compare it with other...
Higher education is way behind K-12 in terms of public awareness. You can start almost any conversation in K-12 education policy with the premise that our schools aren't as good as they could be and need to get better. People will argue the method, but they won't really argue the point. They won't say, "Oh, there's nothing wrong with our K-12 schools. They're awesome. We just need to keep giving them more money and stay out of their business." But that's what a lot of people think about colleges. And colleges...
...days since passengers overpowered Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab aboard the Detroit-bound jet he allegedly tried to blow up on Christmas Day, almost every aspect of the case - from Abdulmutallab's absence from no-fly lists to the handling of intelligence from Nigeria - has been the focus of fierce criticism of the Obama Administration. On Thursday afternoon, President Obama outlined preliminary reviews of the intelligence failings that allowed Abdulmutallab onto the Amsterdam-to-Detroit jet and laid out additional steps to fix those shortcomings. Reporting that a systemic failure allowed the bombing attempt, he said he was ultimately responsible and made...
...whale war is not over. Watson's bluster and aggressive tactics may have earned Sea Shepherd a reality television show (and a parody on South Park), but its high-profile approach has also helped the organization get charitable donations from major Hollywood players. Though Japan's ICR claims that almost half of the International Whaling Commission's members support sustainable whaling, right now only Japan, Norway and Iceland hunt whales in significant numbers. Even with the loss of its fastest vessel, Sea Shepherd has the ships, funds and, most important, the will to continue. As Watson told reporters...