An Economist Argues That Our Education System Is Largely By Scott Carlson JANUARY 29, 2018 Copyright © 2018 The Chronicle of Higher Education Economics, it has been said, is the dismal science, and Bryan Caplan is pessimistic indeed. A professor of economics at George...
Laureate y su política corporativa para 2018
Laureate Shifts Focus Global education giant Laureate sells off some international institutions and refocuses on emerging markets. By Ashley A. Smith January 31, 2018 It was nearly a year ago that Laureate Education, a public benefit company that owns the nation’s...
International Higher Education: nuevo número
Our first issue of 2018 features an insightful selection of articles on internationalization—a key topic in this era of nationalism. Additional articles on the university presidency, trends in scientific communication, the new excellence initiative in France, the...
Sobre los doctorados en Canadá y países anglosajones
Cognitive Dissonance in Academia November 13th, 2017 - Alex Usher On a pretty regular basis, some academic or other pens a piece in the popular press talking about overproduction of PhDs. Take for example this 2015 Jonathan Wolff piece in the Guardian with a piece...
El costo y la riqueza de las universidades de los EEUU
How Rich Universities Get Richer … and leave everyone else behind By Charles T. Clotfelter OCTOBER 27, 2017 PREMIUM (Copyright © 2017 The Chronicle of Higher Education) Over the last 40 years, no one has proposed that the guiding purpose of higher education should be...
Alex Usher sobre gratuidad
Why the American Tuition Debate is Different (redux) October 18th, 2017 - Alex Usher As many of you know, I've been around the block a few times around the issue of "free tuition" (see here here here and here for a few examples if you're interested/have forgotten/find...
USA: Visión Ministra de Educación
DeVos undeterred by critics even as agenda remains stalled By MARIA DANILOVA https://apnews.com/f300e3b55c6e4407b49fcc9881f3efa1 Link copied! WASHINGTON (AP) — Among the paintings and photographs that decorate Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ sunlit, spacious office...
La filosofía de R. Rorty a 10 años de su muerte
Richard Rorty: Life, Pragmatism, and Conversational Philosophy By Santiago Zabala Los Angeles Review of Books, JULY 22, 2017 WHEN RICHARD RORTY (1931–2007) passed away 10 years ago, public intellectuals such as Martha Nussbaum, Stanley Fish, and Gianni Vattimo, as...
Discusión sobre escuelas públicas en USA
What the "governments schools" critics really mean Katherine Stewart, July 31, 2017 SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — When President Trump recently proposed his budget for “school choice,” which would cut more than $9 billion in overall education spending but put more resources...
Neurodiversidad y educación especial
April 2017 | Volume 74 | Number 7 Differences, Not Disabilities Pages 10-16 Issue Table of Contents | Read Article Abstract Neurodiversity: The Future of Special Education? Thomas Armstrong If we want to use the most effective approaches with kids—and draw on new...
Texto leído para la recepción de JPArellano como nuevo miembro de número de la Academia
José Pablo Arellano Marín se incorpora al Sillón N°32 de la Academia 19 diciembre, 2024 El nuevo numerario pronunció...
En defensa del mérito
En defensa del mérito José Joaquín Brunner, 29 de diciembre de 2024 Uno de los tópicos más antiguos, a la vez que...
Papel de la IA en la prospectiva científica
LLMs outclass humans at predicting neuroscience results Nathan M Greenfield 10 December 2024 Large language models...
Harald Beyer: Un gran engaño
Viernes 27 de diciembre de 2024 Un gran engaño Señor Director: Un poco más del 53% de los jóvenes que fueron admitidos...