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Geek Chic: Can Science Smackdowns Make “Pocket Protector Skills” Cool?
In the book I’m writing about global education, I state very clearly that we have a serious math/science PR issue in the US. On one hand, we’re telling kids they need more math and science. On the other hand, we’re continuing to celebrate athletics and popularity over academic achievement and intellectual pursuits.
Our big challenge is marketing–we need to make math and science cool. Other countries are doing this very successfully–and that’s one of the reasons
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The Tragicomedy of the Mindless Quest For That College Degree
Notice I said mindless. See, that’s the big issue. Too many students who are not prepared for college–and for whom it might not be the best option–are going into debt to pursue that golden bachelor’s degree.
Marty Nemko is my new best friend. Well, we’ve never met, but I like what he has to say.
Marty wrote a great article called “America’s Most Overrated Product: The Bachelor’s Degree” that shows us the naked truth about that college diploma–and the
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Hard Times In Florida: UF Slashes Jobs, Enrollment
According to this article in the Orlando Sentinel, the University of Florida is in hunker-down mode. UF is slashing undergraduate enrollment by 4,000 students, laying off 138 faculty and staff members, and eliminating some courses and degree programs to make up for the loss of $47 million in state money.
The sweeping cuts announced Monday by UF President Bernie Machen reflect the pressure all 11 of Florida’s public universities are under to trim ongoing costs because
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Record Wait List Led by Amherst, Yale, MIT Brings High Anxiety
April 16 (Bloomberg) -- Anxiety for U.S. high school seniors, always high this time of year, is growing after elite colleges put record numbers of applicants on waiting lists. Yale and Princeton universities, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Amherst College are among top-ranked U.S. schools that increased, by as much as 50 to 90 percent, the number of students told this month they
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Financial Aid Podcast Live: How to Pay for College in Uncertain Times
The Financial Aid Podcast is hosting a select group of financial aid, media and industry leaders to participate in a live podcast addressing the recent news regarding the credit crunch. Learn how you, as a student, parent, or family member can pay for college in 2008. Student questions such as the following will be addressed: What is the current status of the student lending market? Will loans be available to me?I keep hearing that
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Seeking Unschool Parents and Older Students
Right now, I’m working on the chapter in my book about those who unschool–that is, they don’t enroll in any school, instead choosing to homeschool or put together their own educational plan.
I’m looking for stories from any unschoolers between the ages of 17 and 25. I know there are a lot of younger unschoolers, but for the book I’m writing, The World Is Your Campus, I need to hear from those who’ve been through the unschooling
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How Would You Rule the Admissions Universe?
I know I’d do things differently. Most adults who have been through the college admissions process and are now the proud owners of hindsight, would agree that the hoop jumping is silly, the college choice is not critical, and your happiness and success in life are not proportionately related to how much you spent on your education.
Elinor Lipman wrote this great op-ed piece in the Boston Globe called “If I Ruled the Admissions Universe” and she
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Big Bubble of High School Students About To Burst
This bit, taken from Higher Ed Watch’s blog, gives us a heads up on the way high schools in the US will be changing in the years ahead:
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Changes Ahead in Future Applicant Pool
The demographic boom in college bound students that began in the early 1990s is coming to the end this year, according to a new analysis of census data conducted by the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education (WICHE). The report, “Knocking at the College
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High School Teachers On Hidden (Cell Phone) Cameras
I’m all in favor of using cell phones as learning devices (there are cool ways to do this) but that’s not all they’re being used for in high school classrooms.
Over at Dangerously Irrelevant, you can ( if you have the stomach for it) watch seven student-filmed YouTube videos of teachers losing it in class. Of course, you can also watch the truly horrendous behavior of the students.
Watch the videos at the post here, then scroll down
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Mini-Term: An Experiment In No-Pressure, For-Its-Own-Sake Learning
This post by Anthony Chivetta, one of the students over at Students 2.0 provides a glimpse of the kind of learning experiences that are surprisingly simple but result in a great deal of both real learning and satisfaction.
He describes a mini-term in which two or three teachers with a shared passion teamed up to offer a short course for students. Anthony tells us about taking a course called “Zen and the Art of Furniture Design” in which he
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