This Is Higher Education’s Gilded Age Natalya Balnova for The Chronicle Review By Brian Rosenberg FEBRUARY 03, 2019 PREMIUM Michael Bloomberg announced in November that he was making a gift of $1.8 billion to his alma mater, the Johns Hopkins University. For the...
Religiones en la educación superior de los EEUU
‘The Resilience of Religion in American Higher Education’ Authors discuss new book about the diversity and strength of religion in academe -- as well as some of the tensions. By Scott Jaschik January 11, 2019 0 COMMENTS William F. Buckley Jr.'s 1951 book God and Man...
Is US higher education in crisis?, Steven Brint
Is US higher education in crisis? Many observers perceive US higher education to be in trouble. They’re missing the big picture, says Steven Brint January 3, 2019 By Steven Brint Even those who are not immersed in the world of higher education are familiar with the...
Enseñanza personalizada: qué está ocurriendo
The Backlash Against Personalized Learning Tuesday, December 11, 2018 Newsletter Students at the Secondary School for Journalism in Brooklyn, New York walked out of class to protest it. Another New York City public school dumped it. And in Cheshire, Connecticut, the...
Enseñanza de las artes liberales: Innovaciones
Re:Learning Tuesday, December 11, 2018 Sign up for this newsletter I’m Goldie Blumenstyk, a senior writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education, covering innovation in and around academe. Here’s what I’m thinking about this week: Three takes on success for liberal-arts...
El cambio de la universidad como institución formativa
How Professors Ceded Their Authority Education and moral purpose have parted ways By Chad Wellmon November 20, 2018 PREMIUM In 1904, while touring the eastern half of the United States, the German sociologist Max Weber encountered an institution that would intrigue...
Entrevista con Steven Pinker
Looking Bright The Harvard psychologist says he is no starry-eyed optimist. It’s just that the data don’t lie. Steven Pinker, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard University, maintains that by objective measures the world is heading in the right direction.CreditKayana...
Empleabilidad de graduados en USA
Young Americans need to be taught skills, not handed credentials | Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/e5b1cba6-e41d-11e8-8e70-5e22a430c1ad 1/4 Rana Foroohar, 11/11/2018 I cannot think of a market that is more dysfunctional in America right now than education....
Más sobre discriminacion en U de Harvard, Alex Usher
HARVARD ON TRIAL NOVEMBER 5, 2018 | ALEX USHER If you’re at all interested in American higher education, you’ll no doubt have been paying some attention these last couple of weeks to the Harvard Admissions Trial. On the off chance you haven’t, here’s a quick re-cap:...
Universidad de Harvard: alegatos sobre discriminacion
¿Ofensiva trumpista contra la discriminación positiva? Un activista conservador sienta a Harvard en el banquillo para que deje de dar prioridad a negros y latinos sobre los asiáticos (como tapadera para poner fin a décadas de acción positiva) No importa si es por la...
España: El auge de las clases particulares
El auge de las clases particulares: los ricos las usan para diferenciar a sus hijos, los pobres para que no se queden...
Finlandia: programa de doctorados en tres años
Government to fund 1,000 PhDs who have to finish in 3 years Jan Petter Myklebust 01 February 2024 A pilot programme...
Países bajos: debate sobre política de financiamiento de la investigación
The Netherlands’ new science policy is unevidenced, undebated and risky Previous output is by far the best predictor...
Internacionalización: debates actuales
Accountability in internationalisation: it must be personal Paulina Latorre, Uwe Brandenburg and Hans de Wit 27...