"Stanford Computer Science is Broken"
September 28, 2023
A mostly funny rant but one that could apply to virtually all college majors at all colleges.
A mostly funny rant but one that could apply to virtually all college majors at all colleges.
Example: a "Talent Diversity Champion" at UC San Diego, to work primarily from home, supposedly will pay $100 to $130 grand.
For me, probably the most unpleasant aspect of college teaching.
44 percent of the educators reported that they’ve had students demand a higher grade than they’ve earned “very often” or “somewhat often.” Another 24 percent said they get asked “every so often.”
Detailed article explaining something more people should know about: in the vast majority of U.S. colleges and universities few students have to pay the full list price for tuition.
By the way, to find out the net price for a U.S. college or university, type "[name of college] cost" into Google. Here's Colby College in Maine, acceptance rate of 9%: "Average [annual] cost before aid," $78,655; "Average cost after aid," $17,739. Wake Forest: $79,886 and $29,214. Univ. of Chicago, $84,126 and $22,690.
Frederick Hess argues it's sheer illusion that we could get rid of it.
A wee bit difficult to do college-level work in the sciences or engineering if you don't know how to add fractions.
See also "Students are entering college unable to write". (And for some, leaving college unable to write, too.)
A four-minute video that should be shown to every college student. (Probably high school, too, but I don't want to carried away.)
Great, American story. Businessman has a problem:
In hiring young people for his large private business, Bob Luddy of Raleigh, North Carolina, ran head-long into the problem shared by other employers — namely, that many potential employees with a public-school education did not have the elemental skills required to hold jobs, some unable to understand basic logic or even to read.
So Mr. Luddy decidee to do something about it. He, like Eva Moskowitz in New York City and others, didn't complain, he just fixed our education system, one school at a time.
Good article. It the first one I've read that points out admissions office folks in elite schools--consistent with my impressions of admissions people--like to play God:
That would be the "learning styles" baloney. Another piece of (mostly) baloney: "Does a 'Growth Mindset' Really Help You Succeed?"
If you think of educational "research" as a search for the next fad, you won't usually be wrong.