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...good news is that just about any type of plastic works: MasterCard, Visa, American Express, and Discover are all welcome. Debit cards...
...you’re from sunny Los Angeles (or staying with an L.A.-based roommate to escape the cold—good choice, by the way) you can catch the all-male Krokodiloes on Jan. 9 at 7 p.m. at Westwood Presbyterian Church on Wilshire Blvd. Check out the Facebook event to buy tickets. The Kroks will then hit Utah, performing at the Waterford School on Jan. 14 and the University of Utah on Jan. 18. They’ll finish up with some as-yet-unscheduled shows in NYC and head back to Cambridge...
...that doesn't exist that they don't want to exist. In the latter category, no one knows how much students learn at a given college or university. No one knows. The entire process for assessing learning is completely idiosyncratic and course based. Now in some cases there's good 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...
...colleges given too much respect? Universities definitely get too much of a free pass. We have not gotten in the habit of asking hard questions about whether or not universities are doing a good job of teaching their students. Some of them are. There are fantastic universities, fantastic departments, fantastic programs, but there are also terrible universities, terrible departments, terrible programs. And the great fiction is that there are none of the latter. Listen to the way that we talk to students about the admissions process. Even as they compete for the best students, schools say, "It's all about...
...that's a fair exchange for the public dollar. And private colleges do get a lot of money from the public. They don't pay taxes. And if you're sitting on a billion-dollar endowment and you're not paying taxes on capital gains, that's a pretty good deal...