Colleges and universities help students get started in careers. The job market stinks for grads but many colleges and universities n0w offer assistance to students so they can get a glimpse of "the real world." … [Read more...]
Escaping the Community-College Trap
February 17, 2014 by
Escaping the Community-College Trap. More than half of community-college students never earn a degree. Ann Hulbert, writing in The Atlantic, offers some ideas on how to fix that. Photo by Mike McQuade in The Atlantic "Daquan McGee got out of jail," she writes, then he got accepted to a … [Read more...]
The Danger of Telling Poor Kids That College Is the Key to Social Mobility
January 30, 2014 by
When schools de-emphasize the intellectual benefits of higher education, like college, students become less imaginative about their futures. A 12th-grader wrote a college admissions essay about wanting to pursue a career in oceanography. Let’s call her Isabella. A few months ago, we edited it … [Read more...]
When Minority Students Attend Elite Private Schools
January 27, 2014 by
Sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't. Worth trying though. Many parents of color send their children to exclusive, predominantly white schools in an attempt to give their kids a "ticket to upward mobility." But these well-resourced institutions can fall short at nurturing minority students … [Read more...]
Even Gifted Students Can’t Keep Up In Math and Science, the Best Fend for Themselves
January 26, 2014 by
In a post-smokestack age, there is only one way for the United States to avoid a declining standard of living, and that is through innovation...The nation has to enlarge its pool of the best and brightest science and math students and encourage them to pursue careers that will keep the country … [Read more...]
What Is Good Teaching?
January 26, 2014 by
What is good teaching? The question is rarely posed and almost never answered. This topic deserves attention and not just from teachers, but colleges, high schools, school boards and parents. For example, do teaching colleges teach class managment? Not much. They're training people for a … [Read more...]
Canada’s students slipping in math and science, OECD finds
January 19, 2014 by
A new international study ranks Canadian students among the top of the class in key subject areas, but there has been a noticeable decline over the years in math and science scores among the country's pupils. I promised you I'd provide the Canadian stats. They aren't as bad as the US stats but … [Read more...]
Students suffer because colleges don’t have enough money
April 15, 2013 by
Students suffer because many Colleges don't have enough money This video interview of Douglas Belkin via the Wall Street Journal says many colleges simply don't have enough money to operate well. That has repercussions on students and continues a downward spiral since the beginning of the … [Read more...]
