Are American College Students Brilliantly Disabled?
More students are reporting disabilities — and getting A’s. Source link
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Apple’s App Course Runs $20,000 a Student. Is It Really Worth It?
Two years ago, Lizmary Fernandez took a detour from studying to be an immigration attorney to join a free Apple course for making iPhone apps. The Apple Developer Academy in Detroit…
Students Are ‘Learning with Their Feet’ — by Shunning Bad Colleges
Students are reshaping the higher education market by abandoning low-ranking schools and low-earning majors. Source link
Should College Get Harder?
Around twenty years ago, when I was a graduate student in English, I taught a class in a special observation room at my university’s teaching center. My students and I sat around a long…
Visiting a New University in Austin, Texas
Places like the University of Austin, driven by the Great Books, merit, and free inquiry, are part of the mix in changing higher ed’s tune. Source link
American Universities Are Schooling China on Authoritarian Tactics
The attempt to limit speech through peer pressure risks turning campuses into surveillance states. Source link
The Cure for Racial Discrimination in Medical Education
If colleges and universities want the American taxpayer’s support, they should be forced to focus on merit alone. Source link
Trump Shines a Light on Discrimination in College Admissions
By forcing schools to open their books, it will be much more difficult for them to rely on application essays and obscure admissions criteria to ‘cover their tracks.’ Source link
Beware Rationalizations for Leaving Universities the Way They Are
American universities maintain closed-minded intellectual environments that encourage professors and students to espouse progressive orthodoxy and punish those who don’t. Source link