Newmark's Door

"Indiana’s Worthwhile Academic Experiment"

Good on the Hoosiers. But not that this is simply correcting a previous mistake.

"North Carolina public universities have closed their DEI offices, eliminated 59 DEI positions, and saved $17,118,889, according to a new report today"

Chapel Hill eliminated 20[!] positions for a savings of $5.389 million and my former employer, NC State, eliminated just 8 but for an almost equal savings of $4.909 million.

"Are Colleges Complying with the Court?"

It's quite early yet, but tentatively the answer is "yes" for MIT, Amherst, Tufts, UVa, and Rice and maybe "no" at Yale, Princeton, and Duke.

"Why do Asian kids outperform Western kids in math?"

Seven minute video by Malcolm Gladwell.

Related: my two-decades old post.

UPDATE: Second link fixed now.

"Are Teachers Really Underpaid?"

This is true: "The answer is more complicated than you might think."

"One state’s budget dispels big lie about school choice"

"School choice actually proves cheaper because each student gets thousands of dollars less from budget."

"Abolish Grades"

Yascha Mounk, Associate Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins, proposes a system "much better than the status quo". 

While I completely agree that grade inflation is a deadly serious problem in education, I think his proposal wouldn't achieve most of which he claims for it. I think that the one relatively modest advantage that he claims that would actually result is "Stop creating a disincentive for students to take the most demanding courses or taking advantage of the full variety of course offerings at their universities."

To paraphrase Chief Justice Roberts: if you want to stop grade inflation, stop inflating grades.

"I quit my stressful job as an NYC teacher — now I make $1K in 2 days as a Hooters girl"

Teaching K-12 is, according to what I read, frequently demeaning, so why not be demeaned for better money?

"Universities and Reverse Assimilation: They imported an inferior culture"

Agree or disagree with Arnold Kling, you've got admire his boldness:

I want to suggest that one of the causal factors in the decline of the university was the goal of expanding access to higher education. Universities began to enroll populations with different values and thought processes. 

"More women are skipping college to make six figures as electricians, car mechanics and truck drivers"

If the pay stays near "six figures", I expect this trend to continue.

Related: "Vo-Tech Education Is Taking Off, and It's Not Your Dad's Shop Class Anymore".