Higher Education
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September 01, 2010 — Mickey Kaus links to a provocative and worthwhile, if typically grandiose, post by Walter Russell Mead, about higher education. The gist is that universities are not preparing students well for the world as...
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20 hours ago — The Chronicle of Higher Education has a short article that surveys the ways that different organizations rate colleges. Dated August 29, 2010, by Alex Richards and Ron Coddington, the article is mostly an...
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in Business by Instapundit
September 01, 2010 — BACK TO SCHOOL: Walter Russell Mead on the Higher Education Bubble. The upper middle class benefited over the last generation from a rising difference between the living standards of professional and blue...
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August 31, 2010 — Great article today in Inside Higher Education, All in the Delivery , that discusses the rise of eBooks in higher education, specifically for textbooks. Kindle, iPad,...
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August 31, 2010 — “Ever since the quality of higher education started to become a matter of concern in society, people have been struggling with the idea of how, if at all, quality could be measured. There has tended to be...
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September 01, 2010 — Instapundit has been mentioning the " higher-education bubble " plenty of times recently. We've dealt with the housing bubble in recent years. How about thinking how the connection between the two keeps the...
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August 30, 2010 — For much of the last century American universities have held their place as global leaders in higher education, but recently, with the United State's economic dominance...
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August 30, 2010 — -attend for anybody who is serious about using web analytics in higher education. Avinash Kaushik , the guy who actually wrote THE book (actually 2) on how to use web analytics...
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in Arts by Ninth Level Ireland
August 30, 2010 — “When I became President of DCU in 2000, I was immediately drawn into the world of Ireland’s performing arts in various unexpected ways. Construction for the Helix, which was to be North Dublin’s main cultural centre, had begun in...
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in Business by Real Time Economics
August 30, 2010 — Another casualty of the housing bust: Higher education. The biggest financial asset for most American families — and in many cases, the only asset — is their home. When...
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August 30, 2010 — Camille Paglia at The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Having taught in art schools for most of my four decades in the classroom, I am used to having students who work with their hands — ceramicists,...
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August 29, 2010 — ). Anemone also has some very similar thoughts about the generalist bias in education and how that puts autistic students at a particular disadvantage: [Tyler Cowen, writing in the Chronicle of Higher...
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August 30, 2010 — The Chronicle of Higher Education kicked off a series that will explore quality in higher education over the next few months. One of the...
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August 28, 2010 — Last week I received a nice surprise in the mail, Changing Cultures in Higher Education (Ulf Daniel Ehlers and Dirk Schneckberg eds.) Springer. Congratulations, guys. 610 pages for a mere $126. It’s good...
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August 27, 2010 — I’ve got a college degree and a professional job, in which I regularly study a wide variety of subjects. Am I, then, better educated than the man who can change out a carburetor; re-wire a room; drywall and plaster a basement; raise more...