A Political Crackdown at University of North Carolina - The New Yorker. On January 16th, Tom Ross, the president of the University of North Carolina, and John Fennebresque, the chair of its board of governors, held a press conference to announce that the board had asked for and received Ross’s resignation. With Ross sitting beside him, Fennebresque insisted, in effect, that he had been fired for no reason. Ross had been successful in every way, he told reporters: “exemplary” in his handling of recent athletic scandals, and a model of “work ethic” and “perfect integrity.” “There was no precipitating event,” Fennebresque, who looked by turns mournful and defensive during the twenty-minute exchange, said.
“He’s been wonderful.” In response to a series of questions, Fennebresque insisted that the decision was not about politics, at least not “to the best of my knowledge.” Few observers believed that there was not some political motivation. The most interesting Pope Center materials sketch a two-pronged attack on public higher education as currently practiced. UT System creates database to track graduates' earnings, debt. The University of Texas System on Thursday unveiled an ambitious data tool that gives current and prospective students a wealth of information about how recent graduates like them have fared in the job market. The website, SeekUT (search + earnings + employment = knowledge), links with records from the Texas Workforce Commission to track 68,000 alumni of the system's 15 universities into the work force, providing earnings and loan debt levels one year and five years after graduation by institution and major.
The website and a related app also provide data on the time to degree by undergraduate major, the proportion of graduates in a major who go on to graduate study and the job and salary outlook in by occupation, educational level and region of the state. The Texas initiative was announced on a day when many college presidents were at the White House talking about their efforts to enroll more low-income and underrepresented students. Driven by Debt Concerns Surprisingly Positive Numbers.
The Troubling Dean-to-Professor Ratio. J. Paul Robinson, chairman of the Purdue University faculty senate, walks the halls of a 10-story tower, pointing out a row of offices for administrators. “I have no idea what these people do,” says the biomedical engineering professor. Purdue has a $313,000-a-year acting provost and six vice and associate vice provosts, including a $198,000-a-year chief diversity officer. Among its 16 deans and 11 vice presidents are a $253,000 marketing officer and a $433,000 business school chief.
The average full professor at the public university in West Lafayette, Ind., makes $125,000. The number of Purdue administrators has jumped 54 percent in the past decade—almost eight times the growth rate of tenured and tenure-track faculty. Purdue is among the U.S. colleges layering up at the top at a time when budgets are tight, students are amassing record debt, and tuition is skyrocketing. Some state schools are reexamining pay for top managers. Learning styles and pedagogy in post-16 learning: a systematic and critical review. Author: Coffield, Frank; Moseley, David; Hall, Elaine; Ecclestone, Kathryn Corporate author: Learning and Skills Research Centre (Great Britain) (LSRC) Abstract: Learning style instruments are widely used but not enough is known about their reliability and validity and their impact on pedagogy in post-16 learning.
This report documents work from a project commissioned by the Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA) to carry out an extensive review of research on post-16 learning styles, to evaluate the main models of learning styles, and to discuss the implications of learning styles for post-16 teaching and learning. The following research questions were addressed: What models of learning styles are influential and potentially influential? What empirical evidence is there to support the claims made for these models?
What are the broad implications for pedagogy of these models? Subjects: Research; Teaching and learning Geographic subjects: Europe; Great Britain. Education Preserves Class Inequalities. (Image: Students passing via Shutterstock)Galveston, Tex. - Angelica Gonzales marched through high school in Goth armor — black boots, chains and cargo pants — but undermined her pose of alienation with a place on the honor roll. She nicknamed herself after a metal band and vowed to become the first in her family to earn a college degree. “I don’t want to work at Walmart” like her mother, she wrote to a school counselor. Weekends and summers were devoted to a college-readiness program, where her best friends, Melissa O’Neal and Bianca Gonzalez, shared her drive to “get off the island” — escape the prospect of dead-end lives in luckless Galveston.
Melissa, an eighth-grade valedictorian, seethed over her mother’s boyfriends and drinking, and Bianca’s bubbly innocence hid the trauma of her father’s death. They stuck together so much that a tutor called them the “triplets.” Angelica, a daughter of a struggling Mexican immigrant, was headed to Emory University. High School “10,” she wrote.
| quietube. Two community colleges get serious about working with K12. The growing crisis of students arriving at college unprepared to do college-level work has led to plenty of finger-pointing between high school and college educators. But two community colleges have learned that better collaboration with local high schools may be the best way to dramatically reduce the number of students who fall into the quagmire of remedial coursework. Long Beach City College has worked closely with the Long Beach Unified School District so it can experiment with using high school grades to help determine whether incoming students have remedial needs -- a shift from instead relying heavily on standardized placement tests.
And according to newly available data from the college, an initial group of 1,000 students from Long Beach high schools who were placed with this new method were far more likely to take and pass credit-bearing, transfer-level courses at the college than their peers the previous year. Building Trust Even so, the work isn’t easy. As California Goes. University of Phoenix faces possible probation by accreditor. The University of Phoenix’s accreditation woes are more serious than the for-profit giant had been told to expect, with a site team from its regional accreditor recommending last week that the university be placed on probation because of concerns about a lack of autonomy from its holding company, the Apollo Group. The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools last year wrapped up its accreditation review of Phoenix. In January the accreditor informed Apollo that it had identified unspecified problems that would be disclosed in a forthcoming draft report.
Company officials told investors that it would probably be placed “on notice,” a less severe penalty than probation. But the report, which Apollo received last week, surprised company officials and industry analysts alike. It described “alleged administrative and governance deficiencies” that led to the call for probationary status, according to a corporate filing Apollo released Monday.
Trace A. TED Education Talks. Welcome | LINCS. Higher Ed’s Biggest Problem: What’s It For? - Next. The release this week of a bill of rights for learning in the digital age was criticized by some who said the document had been put together by a group that didn’t include the very people it is meant to protect: students. The problem is, there is no traditional learner anymore.
What’s more, we no longer even have a common definition of “higher education.” The lack of consensus about what the higher-education system in the United States should be producing is largely to blame for the pressures facing colleges and universities today, from lagging financial support to proving their value to students and parents. We desperately need some sort of rallying cry, akin to the post-World War II period of the GI Bill, the late-1950s space race, or the introduction of the modern financial-aid programs with the first Higher Education Act, in 1965. Take flagship institutions, for example. Those rules, of course, are designed to protect students and attach integrity to a college degree. Return to Top. Logical Paradoxes. National University Rankings 2012. Share My Lesson - Free K-12 Resources By Teachers, For Teachers. How Memory Works: 10 Things Most People Get Wrong.
Human memory and recall works nothing like a computer, but that’s what makes it all the more fascinating to understand and experience. “If we remembered everything we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing.” ~William James It’s often said that a person is the sum of their memories.
Your memory and recall is what makes you who you are. Despite this, memory and recall is generally poorly understood, which is why many people say they have ‘bad memories’. That’s partly because the analogies we have to hand—like that of computer memory—are not helpful. Human memory and recall is vastly more complicated and quirky than the memory residing in our laptops, tablets or phones. Here is my 10-point guide to the psychology of memory and recall (it is based on an excellent review chapter by the distinguished UCLA memory expert, Professor Robert A. 1.
Everyone has experienced the frustration of not being able to recall a fact from memory. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. College Spark Washington. Stop Telling Students to Study for Exams - Commentary. By David Jaffee Among the problems on college campuses today are that students study for exams and faculty encourage them to do so. I expect that many faculty members will be appalled by this assertion and regard it as a form of academic heresy. If anything, they would argue, students don't study enough for exams; if they did, the educational system would produce better results. But this simple and familiar phrase—"study for exams"—which is widely regarded as a sign of responsible academic practice, actually encourages student behaviors and dispositions that work against the larger purpose of human intellectual development and learning. Rather than telling students to study for exams, we should be telling them to study for learning and understanding.
If there is one student attitude that most all faculty bemoan, it is instrumentalism. This dysfunctional system reaches its zenith with the cumulative "final" exam. But that is hardly enough. International Journal of Education and Development using ICT. Series Of Good Dan Pink Videos To Use With Students. I’ve written a lot about Daniel Pink’s writings on motivation over the years. Thanks to Pam Moran, I recently discovered a series of short videos Dan did for the Patterson Foundation that would be good to use with students. Actually, Dan did one interview with the Foundation, and they elegantly turned them into bite-size ones that I think are perfect for the classroom. Some could just be shown to provoke a student response and discussion and others, like his One Sentence Project, presents specific next steps: Here’s the one on The One Sentence Project, and here are also links that give more information on it: What’s your sentence?
: The video What’s your sentence? This next video isn’t part of the same series, but it is Dan’s official “introduction” to the One Sentence Project, so I thought I’d add it: Two questions that can change your life from Daniel Pink on Vimeo. Here’s a great classroom example: Here’s another example: Finally, here’s the entire video before it was cut into the above clips: C.E.T.L.:: Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning. {*style:<b> </b>*} If you would like to suggest any additions or changes to this list, please e-mail Tom Pusateri , CETL Associate Director for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Please provide a URL for the home page of the journal.
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An interdisciplinary publication devoted to cognitive investigations of instruction and learning. [Top] Welcome! - Getting Results - Resource Guides at Edmonds Community College. EdCC’s Getting Results Blackboard site focuses on 4 of the 6 modules that comprise the basics of teaching and learning: Creating a Community of LearnersPlanning for OutcomesActive Teaching and LearningAssessing Teaching and Learning After completing the Overview Module, get started by browsing all of the content and links in the first module, Creating a Community of Learners.
Then go back to the module main page and begin working. Select the aspects of the module that might have the greatest value and relevance to your teaching and fostering of student learning. In the resources for each module, you’ll find a video viewing guide. You should print this guide so it is available to you while you watch the videos.When you begin working on the module, you'll notice prompts instructing you to record your thoughts about specific content in a "notebook. " To accompany the material on the Getting Results website, in Blackboard you find the following content: 14 Wacky "Facts" Kids Will Learn in Louisiana's Voucher Schools. Separation of church and what? Currier & Ives/Library of Congress Thanks to a new law privatizing public education in Louisiana, Bible-based curriculum can now indoctrinate young, pliant minds with the good news of the Lord—all on the state taxpayers' dime.
Under Gov. Bobby Jindal's voucher program, considered the most sweeping in the country, Louisiana is poised to spend tens of millions of dollars to help poor and middle-class students from the state's notoriously terrible public schools receive a private education. While the governor's plan sounds great in the glittery parlance of the state's PR machine, the program is rife with accountability problems that actually haven't been solved by the new standards the Louisiana Department of Education adopted two weeks ago. Here are some of my favorite lessons: 1.
Much like tough cop Katie Coltrane and Teddy the T-rex in the direct-to-video hit Theodore Rex Screenshot: YouTube 2. 3. 4. 5. Doesn't everyone look happy?! 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Bates Technical College: General Education, Basic Studies and ESL. Contact Us General Education Basic Studies Lynn Neal, Instructor General education and basic studies courses are an important component to a Bates education. You can start now on prerequisite courses if you're on a waitlist for a career education program.
General education courses develop competence in communications, computation and human relations that are necessary to succeed in the workplace and the broader community for professional and personal growth and development. Basic studies courses prepare students to be successful in their general education courses. No matter where you start in your academics, we can help you reach your goals. Allied Health Courses Bates offers several paths for those needing to take prerequisite course for entry into various health field, including our Practical Nurse and Occupational Therapy Assistant program. ESL, ABE and GED® Courses These classes transition into general education courses as your skills improve. Subject Resources. Thousands of Free Lesson Plans and Educational Resources for Teachers | Verizon Thinkfinity.org.
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