From Freddie: The Basics: School Reform
Freddie deBoer has written a wonderful essay on School Reform.
Category: Education
Eton’s Ethically Equivocal Entrance Exam Essay
Students seeking entry to one of Britain’s most prestigious secondary schools were asked a morally difficult question.
Campus Insurrections?
It’s time to call out the fringes on both sides for the lawless demagogues that they are and embrace the sanity of the middle
It Was My Understanding There Would Be No Algebra 2
The classic “When will I ever actually use any of this math?” complaint has one universal answer: when it comes to college admissions and Algebra 2.
The Social Danger in Allowing Academic Dishonesty to Fester
Through research and experience adjudicating cases of cheating, three distinct classes of academic dishonesty, and an answer to “who cares?”
Free Speech, Harassment and Hypocrisy: What the University Presidents Got Right and Wrong
The present moment seems to demand more from the university presidents than they are capable of delivering.
The Maleficent Gordon Gee and His Malfunctioning Money Machine
Money covers a multitude of sins. A funding crisis reveals those sins in ways the sheltered professional education class is not going to like.
Legacy Admissions To End At Wesleyan University
After the Supreme Court’s decision curtailing affirmative action, Wesleyan University (CT) announced they are eliminating legacy admissions..
Biden Admin Takes Another Run At Forgiving Student Loan Debt
Two weeks after the Supreme Court rejected the Biden Administration’s attempt to unilaterally forgive student loan debt, the Department of Education is trying again:
Good Legacies
The latest whataboutism issue swap is affirmative action in college admissions and how we should be much more worried about legacy admissions.
Read It For Yourself: Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Blocked By Judge
A district court judge in Texas has put a halt to President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, yet another legal blow to the debt forgiveness program.
Blame Congress For The Student Loan Debt Crisis
Since 1980, college tuition and fees are up 1,200%. It is insane. And Congress won’t do a damned thing about it.
No More Pencils, No More Books: An Academic Computer Science Adventure
What this tells me is that academic computer science is still largely ignorant or uninterested in how to create quality software.
Student Loan Forgiveness: A Bad Idea Disguised
Student loan forgiveness is not a good idea…Not without other reforms. It is a Band-Aid on a sucking chest wound
Concerning Proposals To Place Cameras In School Classrooms
Putting cameras in school classrooms is absurd, backward, counterproductive and just the sort of thing the very proponents would decry as nigh communism were it proposed by their political enemies
How Should Democrats Handle Student Loan Payments
One of the remaining benefits to combat Covid-19 is the suspension of federal student loan payments. President Biden wants them back
Anyone Can Teach
Speaking as an educator with two degrees of my own-and the mountain of student debt to prove it-I stand by my statement: Anyone can teach
Don’t Call It A Comeback: Virtual Learning Getting A Second Look
“Yet despite all these challenges, the district found something surprising: For some families, virtual learning was still an absolute hit”
Tribulation: An Apocalypse of Liberty University’s Own Making
The catalyst to this present tribulation was of Liberty University’s own making, design, and choice. And there is no rapture coming.
New York City Schools To Eliminate Gifted Programs
Outgoing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is making one of the most sweeping changes to the nations largest public school system by eliminating gifted and talented education classes.
