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Four (or maybe five) ideas for how President Obama really could reform college financial aid 26 Aug 2013 | 06:04 pm
My observable corner of the blogiverse has been active and very sharp since the president’s speech at SUNY Buffalo and the White House dreams of reforming college financial aid. Various people I read ...
Atomic Department Ravages the Big Apple!! 21 Aug 2013 | 05:35 pm
On Monday, I discussed the difficulties with analysis of college and university costs that relied on either legal or largely rhetorical allocations. Today, I want to discuss the common perception that...
Rhetorical allocations in higher education 19 Aug 2013 | 05:44 pm
Sara Goldrick-Rab’s discussion in early August of higher education, health care, and costs argues that there needs to be more nuts-and-bolts scrutiny of costs in colleges. I agree, and yet I also thin...
Student services and higher-ed unbundling 12 Aug 2013 | 06:06 pm
Over the weekend, a few papers on higher education gave me mental whiplash: Andrew Kelly and Rick Hess’s Beyond Retrofitting, a brief for unbundling of higher education; and Sara Goldrick-Rab et al. o...
Silly season in education politics 10 Aug 2013 | 02:05 am
It’s a Friday in early August, so why not have crazy education news? You’ve already destroyed our district, but could we at least pretend to open our doors this year? After months of public disavowal...
Pictura invisibilis collegio artium digital 3 Aug 2013 | 06:11 am
In the 1960s, Derek Price and Diana Crane popularized a description of the informal knowledge sharing of in-groups as “invisible colleges,” professional networks that share unwritten or hard-to-descri...
One Week, Better Tools (spoof) 2 Aug 2013 | 09:16 pm
While several of my friends have been working hard this week on developing a new digital-humanities tool at One Week | One Tool: A Digital Humanities Barnraising, I’ve been spoofing their original Ide...
Michael Olneck on badges 2 Aug 2013 | 12:30 am
U. Wisconsin professor emeritus and sociologist Michael Olneck wrote me the following in response to my 2011 blog entry on badges and exchange credentials: I was reading your September 25, 2011 blog,...
Quick note on Tony Bennett: anchor cases and leadership 31 Jul 2013 | 08:03 pm
I’m trying to get some other things done today, but the news on Tony Bennett is dominating education reporting in Florida this week, and my two cents’ worth of response is easy to explain. Essentially...
Do your friends suffer from AUDS? 27 Jul 2013 | 08:07 am
It has now been decades since the wiser and more humane adults in this society identified the injustice of stigma for all sorts of conditions. We have gone from cancer being the unspoken disease to ha...
