Good Stuff on My Campus
Posted in Education on Feb 27th, 2017
I encourage you all to go to this (I’ll sadly be tied up, but this is a super program):
Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
Posted in Education on Feb 27th, 2017
I encourage you all to go to this (I’ll sadly be tied up, but this is a super program):
Posted in Disingenuous, Education, If I Really Hated the Poor ..., Price Controls, Special Privilege, Voluntary Society, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Feb 8th, 2017
Quite literally almost every single person involved in college athletics/kidney donations gets paid except the very people who are generating the lion’s share of value in the first place. Tell me an argument in favor of banning kidney sales and then insert “college athlete” and see how that sounds. Of course, neither the athlete nor […]
Posted in Central Planning, Disingenuous, Education, If I Really Hated the Poor ..., You Can't Have it Both Ways on Feb 8th, 2017
It is well understood that the incidence of defaults on college debt is higher on people with smaller loans outstanding. These are marginally attached students to begin with. Remember that 40% of students who start college do not finish. Yet, contrast this with where the “noise” is coming from on “free college” and the “college loan crisis.” […]
Posted in Dynamism - Not, Education on Jan 24th, 2017
Here is the latest “Big Push” to “fix” failing schools. It failed. That is utterly unsurprising. I do appreciate that this was tried, there should be vastly more experimentation in education, but I am afraid that this really isn’t the kind of experimentation that would lead to improvements. Of course this effort will be unilaterally […]
Posted in Corporatism, Disingenuous, Education, If I Really Hated the Poor ... on Dec 2nd, 2016
We’ll dig down into this Current Affairs vituperation of Trump’s choice of Education Secretary in some more detail later (I’m off to class now). But two points in this article I’d like to make quite clearly and simply. The author starts out by trying to understand and articulate (in true Turing Test fashion) what the arguments made […]
Posted in Education, Special Privilege on Jul 18th, 2016
A perspective here: During student teaching, whenever my lessons were observed or critiqued, the criticisms leveled were not focused on my command of the material, my presence, or my ability to convey information, nor were they questions about my ability to engage students or plan lessons. The criticisms I received were almost always about some […]
Posted in Economic Illiteracy, Economics Problems, Economists, Education on Jun 30th, 2016
Tyler over at Marginal Revolution finds that about 20 states require some teaching of economics in high school. Implicit in the post is that requiring economics is a good thing. And why not? After all, the state of economic literacy in America is strikingly low, even among people who have taken some economics, and teaching […]
Posted in Education on May 30th, 2016
“Graduating college is not a wise choice for all.” That is James Heckman. But what if it were truly free? In other news, it seems that for-profit colleges really are a rip-off.
Posted in Education on May 7th, 2016
Sustainability: [suh-stey-nuh–bil-i-tee]. noun. 1. The actions that will result in my organization or department in obtaining more resources. 2. Of, or pertaining to, the act of being unsustainable. OK, the second one was not nice. Sorry.
Posted in Economic Illiteracy, Education, If I Really Hated the Poor ..., We're Doomed, Welfare State, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Apr 19th, 2016
Today marks the pinnacle of pathetic pandering in NYS as “we” head to the polls to annoint the latest power-mad, megalomaniacal people with our blessings of awesomeness. In that spirit, check out these 10 core principles from the “Bern’s” website: AS PRESIDENT, SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS WILL REDUCE INCOME AND WEALTH INEQUALITY BY: Increasing the […]