POLITICO Biden’s About to Make a Big Mistake on Student Loans There are better ways to help people than across-the-board debt relief. Opinion by KATHARINE G. ABRAHAM and MICHAEL R. STRAIN 05/31/2022 11:21 AM EDT Katharine G. Abraham is an economist at the University...
USA: Liderazgos universitarios
What’s Behind the Surge in No-Confidence Votes? By Megan Zahneis MAY 18, 2022 Anyone following higher-education news in recent weeks has probably noticed a lot of votes of no confidence. Faculty Senate bodies at three campuses in the University of Maine system voted...
USA – Senadora E. Warren sobre préstamos estudiantiles
No, Student Loans Aren’t Like a Mortgage Senator Elizabeth Warren on why she believes that student debt should be canceled, and how to prevent a debt situation like this from happening again By Adam Harris, MAY 20, 2022, 7:37 AM ET For the past two years,...
Post Covid: ¿Oportunidad perdida?
US ‘risks missing out’ on long-term benefits of online learning Virtual tools have unprecedented power to bend teaching towards research-proven ideals, yet opportunity of lockdown getting squandered, MIT experts tell colleagues May 11, 2022 Paul Basken US universities...
Intereses corporativos y universidades en USA
Are corporate interests taking over US higher education? Just as campaigns to promote societal benefit show strength, activists admit setbacks in wider battleground for basic academic freedom Paul Basken,May 5, 2022 Confrontations over corporate interference are...
Más sobre esclavitud y U de Harvard: columna del Rector
Opinion: Here is a hard historical truth: Slavery powerfully shaped Harvard Opinion by Lawrence S. Bacow and Tomiko Brown-Nagin April 26, 2022 Lawrence S. Bacow is president of Harvard University. Tomiko Brown-Nagin is chair of the Presidential Initiative on Harvard...
U de Harvard y la esclavitud en EEUU
Harvard profited from slavery. Now it seeks to atone. 27 April, 2022 Welcome to Wednesday, April 27. Today, Harvard releases a report on how it profited from slavery and how it will try to atone. The U.S. Education Department says 73 more institutions are eligible to...
Ranking QS por disciplinas y areas de conocimiento
US universities lead in 28 of 51 subjects ranked by QS University World News reporter 16 April 2022 In terms of the number of world’s top-10 programmes, the United States dominates this year’s QS World University Rankings by Subject with 239, followed by the United...
Ranking US News bajo la lupa
Do the ‘U.S. News’ Rankings Rely on Dubious Data? Researchers who submit to the publication say survey answers are subject to errors, ambiguity, and pressure to look good. By Francie Diep APRIL 6, 2022 Robert Morse, the lead designer of U.S. News & World Report’s...
¿Podrá subsistir la universidad?
The University in Ruins The “innovations” that promise to save higher ed are a farce. By Johann N. Neem MARCH 21, 2022 Universities might be facing a moment similar to what befell early modern English monasteries under Henry VIII. For generations, Ronald G. Musto...
Optimismo y pesimismo del análisis político
Optimismo y pesimismo del análisis político En estos días, lo que uno lee en la prensa o contempla en la TV es la...
Prohibir o no los teléfonos inteligentes en los colegios
To ban or not to ban? Monitoring countries’ regulations on smartphone use in school 23 January 2025 (updated on: 24...
Revista PEL Vol. 61, Núm. 1
El Vol. 61 Núm. 1 de Pensamiento Educativo, Revista de Investigación Educacional Latinoamericana (PEL) reúne nueve...
Vacaciones italianas en el origen de la Escuela de Frankfurt
FELLOW-TRAVELLERS The surprisingly sunny origins of the Frankfurt School. By Thomas Meaney November, 25 , 2024 One of...