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Education, profit and hypocrisy

Posted in Academic life, Education policy, Politics, news on March 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Another article came out today about how for-profit colleges and trade schools (lumped into one big indistinguishable mass) are using deceptive practices to convince students to sign up for expensive degree programs, then encouraging the students to take out massive student loans that they won’t be able to pay off when they graduate due to [...]

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White-collar trade school?

Posted in Being a scholar, Change, Education policy, Technology on August 27, 2009 | Comments Off

A recent article in Fast Company got me thinking about how higher education works. The article, “How Web-Savvy Edupunks are Transforming American Higher Education” looks at the various initiatives to move education away from the traditional campus and credits model to something more open and in keeping with the web.
At first, this is a massively [...]

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New Semesters, New Deadlines

Posted in Academic life, Education policy, Organization, Productivity, Teaching, Writing on January 19, 2009 | Comments Off

Tomorrow the new semester begins, and I had today off from work so I spent some time thinking about what I needed to do and how I would get it done. Key things about this semester:

Working full time at day job, who has laid off half the company in the last 3 months so I [...]

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When deadlines collide

Posted in Academic life, Education policy, Research, Writing on August 2, 2008 | Comments Off

I’m not dead yet (best heard in your head with a cockney accent) *grin* I have just had far too many immovable deadlines over the last few weeks, leading me to prioritize everything else over blogging.
First I went to a history of ed conference in Newark that was awesome. I practically got giggly when I [...]

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Culturally relevant school, religion and school choice

Posted in Education policy, Religion, Writing on May 2, 2008 | Comments Off

I’m an atheist. I believe
that most religious/spiritual beliefs are superstitions, totally
unfounded and indicative of a less questioning mind. I generally
believe that, at least in the US, religion is “mostly harmless”. (The
exception is things like intelligent design, but that regularly gets
trounced in court.)
I am also a strong believer in
individuality. I do not believe that any [...]

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I’M A PUBLISHED AUTHOR!!!!

Posted in Academic life, Being a scholar, Education policy, Research on February 7, 2008 | Comments Off

Not just the “your paper has been accepted” kind.
Today’s mail included the paper copy of the journal in which my first published paper is actually printed.
(I’m 3rd author, of three, but still….) This is kind of exciting!!!!
(If you have any interest in school choice, email me at protoscholar [ at ] gmail [ [...]

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Privilege and the role of schools

Posted in Education policy, Philosophy, Politics on January 8, 2008 | Comments Off

In response to my prior post about Privilege and Social Capital, Jose posted the following:
“I will tell you that the answers are not simple and will not arrive
quickly. Change starts with the children. However, it also has to do
with changing elements in society that have existed since the
beginning.”
This is a commonly heard perspective, and [...]

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NCLB vs local control of education

Posted in Education policy, news on December 9, 2007 | Comments Off

George Will wrote an excellent op-ed today regarding No Child Left Behind (NCL. I’m sure there are people at the Fordham Foundation ranting in the halls about his use of their Proficiency Illusion paper to bolster an argument about getting the federal government OUT of education (as opposed to their preferred solution of [...]

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Education Policy in the Blogosphere

Posted in Being a scholar, Blogging, Education policy on December 6, 2007 | Comments Off

I’ve skimmed through maybe 5 blogs on my list so far this morning and already come across the following blog posts directly related to my field of education policy:
Outside the (toy)box wrote about schoolhouse commercialism, a major topic for one of the faculty at my school. Uncertain principles wrote about the conflicts regarding whether [...]

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