These worries are as old as the Republic. American colleges and universities are not going down the tubes.
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Georgia higher education Chancellor Hank Huckaby recently gave a speech in Athens about the problems filling jobs in Georgia. Delete the scoop?
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The University System of Georgia and big university systems in nine other states have announced a joint partnership with a large educational technology company to offer massive open online courses, or MOOCs. Delete the scoop?
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A recent study has concluded that using increased education to fix unemployment is only going to be of limited use (Education as a cure for joblessness via @globeandmail http://t.co/xY2KjK2C5a #highered... Delete the scoop?
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The provost at American University, Scott A. Bass, sent the following statement to university faculty and staff members to clarify the university's "moratorium" on creating MOOCs. Via John Shank Delete the scoop?
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There's a debate across the country over how well universities are preparing graduates for the real world, and whether colleges should operate more like businesses. That debate is particularly heated in Texas, where Gov. Delete the scoop?
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There really is nothing new under the sun!
"Problems emerged. Familiar problems. The completion rates in radio courses were low. Students found the lack of social interaction frustrating. There was also the troublesome matter of academic credit. Some students received mere “certificates of completion” when they successfully completed an air college course and colleges and employers often didn’t know what to do with such things. Other colleges eventually did offer credit toward a degree for radio courses—according to the Chronicle, “between 1923 and 1940, 13 institutions offered courses for credit, and nearly 10,000 students enrolled”—but it didn’t work out so well. Only 17 percent of people who signed up ever earned credit. Delete the scoop?
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Increasingly teachers are speaking out against school reforms that they believe are demeaning their profession, and some are simply quitting because they have had enough.
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Could this happen in higher ed? And, if so, what will the results be when employers are already saying that students lack critical thinking skills? Delete the scoop?
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Gov. Rick Scott stands with students and their families in a battle with the leader of the Florida House over a proposed 6 percent increase in tuition for the state's colleges and universities. Delete the scoop?
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College presidents and corporate executives have signed a compact emphasizing the importance to a successful career of a broad, liberal-arts education. Delete the scoop?
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We're not going to hit the No Child Left Behind goals just yet. But what if every high schooler had to pass the citizenship test we give to immigrants? Delete the scoop?
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Despite doom-laden prophecies, texting has not been the disaster for language many feared, argues linguistics professor David Crystal. On the contrary, it improves children's writing and spelling
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Darden School (Business School) at the University of Virginia (Photo credit: Wikipedia) One can hardly go a day without seeing an article touting the end of the University as we know it as the rise of online education, and in particular Massively ... Delete the scoop?
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University System of Georgia Chancellor Hank Huckaby likely was the most celebrated man in Georgia on Thursday.
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Oh, Georgia. Delete the scoop?
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Reports from the Council for Aid to Education provide evidence that students are in fact learning, in contrast to the findings of a blockbuster 2011 book. Delete the scoop?
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In an open letter, the San Jose professors worry that public higher education will suffer if scholar-student interaction is replaced with videotaped content. Via John Shank Delete the scoop?
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Many people think that massive open online courses, or MOOCs, are the future of higher education in America. Delete the scoop?
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My 3 1/2 year-old daughter recently saw me wearing a sweatshirt from my undergraduate alma mater (Ithaca College) and asked me what it spelled. When I told her, she replied: What is college?A Delete the scoop?
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show support .---> Most Americans have barely noticed a trend that gravely threatens our future. Step by step, public higher education is disappearing across our nation. ...
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"Most Americans have barely noticed a trend that gravely threatens our future. Step by step, public higher education is disappearing across our nation." Delete the scoop?
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"Colleges and universities should seek to breakdown the false dichotomy ofliberal arts and career development– they are intrinsically linked."
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Oklahoma's higher education system generates economic returns nearly five times the amount of funding it receives, according to the State Chamber of Oklahoma. Delete the scoop?
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America’s global economic strength has long been driven by the quality and accessibility of its higher education Delete the scoop?
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Americans hold about $1 trillion in student loans, and the debt burden is only getting heavier. One financial aid counselor says students are starting to smarten up and asking questions he'd never considered himself before the recession hit.
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I love the comment where someone says "there's a lot of UNNECESSARY education out there." Am I the only one who sees how dangerous this attitude is?
This, by Congresswoman Karen Bass, who introduced The Student Fainess Act, is also worth considering:
"Bass says the bill is not an overall fix, but it's a necessary step. 'There are a lot of problems that we're facing in our country. We really need to rethink how higher education is paid for — period. But until then, we really shouldn't pass this debt on to future generations,' she says. Moreover, she says, investing in education is essential for staying competitive with other countries." Delete the scoop?
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I was recently invited by Madame Ton Nu Thi Ninh, President of the Tri Viet Institute for International Studies and Exchange within Ton Duc Thang University and Senior Advisor to the President of T... Delete the scoop?
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