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The McDonalds-ification of Higher Education

Bryan Van Norden
Arts & Culture, Education
"Fast food" has been around for a long time. The ancient Romans had it. But McDonald's raised it to a high art. You come in, you look at the menu up on the wall while you are in line, you order, and you...

Abseiling From the Ivory Tower

Rosa Fernandez
Education, Politics & Economics
Increasing numbers of docs and postdocs follow a career path outside academia; they are not failures but successes in the eyes of employers across universities and businesses. Last year, almost 25,000 PhDs...

My College Is Being Blackmailed

Bryan Van Norden
Education, Politics & Economics
My college is being blackmailed. The story of the blackmail goes back to Margaret Spellings, Secretary of Education under Bush the Younger. Spellings (who has no classroom teaching experience, and no degree...

Why Stories Matter for Children’s Learning

Peggy Albers
Arts & Culture, Education
Peggy Albers, Georgia State University Ever wondered why boys and girls choose particular toys, particular colors and particular stories? Why is it that girls want to dress in pink and to be princesses, or...

A Teacher’s Stance on Gun Violence

Cait Etherington
Education, Politics & Economics
Cross-posted from ToBecomeATeacher.org Introduction American educators are standing up in growing numbers to express their outrage about gun violence and demand tighter gun control laws. The nation’s...

Why Personalized Learning Requires Technology and Thinking Humans

Eileen Murphy Buckley
Education
In How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching, Herbert A. Simon, a pioneer in the field of cognitive science, said, “Learning results from what the student does and thinks and...

How Can Universities Support Low-Income Students? By Helping Them Belong

Anne Bramley
Arts & Culture, Education
Last month US News and World Report’s infamous college rankings were released. For the second year in a row Princeton took the number one slot. “That’s probably because they were the first one of the...
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