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...
Europa busca atraer a investigadores de EEUU
Ready to Go Expat? Britain, Canada, France and Germany all launch funding programs to recruit foreign researchers. Will they succeed in capitalizing on perceptions of the U.S. as a less attractive place for research? By Elizabeth Redden July 26, 2017 Fancy moving...
Silicon Valley y la educación en los EEUU
By Natasha Singer, June 6, 2017 In San Francisco’s public schools, Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce, is giving middle school principals $100,000 “innovation grants” and encouraging them to behave more like start-up founders and less like bureaucrats. In...
Trump: rebaja a las ayudas a los universitarios de EE UU
El enorme hachazo de Trump a las ayudas a los universitarios de EE UU El Presupuesto propone recortar 143.000 millones de dólares en préstamos para estudiantes en la próxima década SANDRO POZZI, Nueva York 27 MAY 2017 - 17:11 CEST El presupuesto de un país es la...
¿Por qué los graduados no están “listos para el mundo laboral”?
En todos los continentes, los sistemas de educación superior se enfrentan a una contradicción cada vez más evidente....
Educar en la era de la IA
José Joaquin Brunner, 7 de junio de 2026 León XIV ha publicado su primera encíclica, Magnifica Humanitas, que aborda...
Entrevista: Tensiones, desafíos y nuevas exigencias en la Universidad
Entrevista con José Manuel Rodríguez, día 2 de junio de 2026, sobre tensiones, desafíos y nuevas exigencias en la...