December 19, 2013 by Steve Kolowich Obama Is Advised to Let Market Forces Decide Fate of MOOCs Massive open online courses could help increase access to higher education while driving down its costs, but President Obama should not intervene in order to...
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Obama: Ranking de equidad y empleabilidad para financiar ayudas estudiantiles
Dubious of Obama Plan December 16, 2013 Scott Jaschik WASHINGTON -- Most college presidents doubt that President Obama's plan to promote affordable higher education will be effective, or that it will lead students to make better informed choices. Further, they expect...
Debates sobre acreditación y sus fallas en los EEUU
December 13, 2013 Senators Say Accreditors Are Ineffective and Beset by Conflicts of Interest By Kelly Field Washington Key U.S. senators raised doubts about higher-education accreditation at a hearing on Thursday, citing the system's "conflicts of interest"...
Formación por competencias en universidades y colleges
Competent at What? December 12, 2013 By Paul Fain Competency-based education appears to be higher education’s "next big thing." Yet many academics aren’t sure what it is. And that goes double for lawmakers and journalists. A new group is stepping in to try to clear up...
Digitalizar la educación o educar lo digital
We inform you that the preprint version of «Comunicar», 42, has been recently published with the suggestive title: "Revolution in Education? Computer Support for Collaborative Learning (CSCL)". All articles are available full text and free of charge on our official...
Sobre la estratificación en la profesión académica
December 2, 2013 The Great Stratification Photo Illustration by Scott Seymour and Jacques Benovil Enlarge Image By Jeffrey J. Williams Imagine a diorama in an American Museum of Occupations showing the evolution of the professor. The exhibit starts in the early 1800s...
Nota de Gregory Elacqua sobre comparación de resultados PISA
Desde la publicación de los resultados de PISA ayer, se ha publicado (y yo he recibido) muchos comentarios sobre las tendencias de PISA. Primero, es importante aclarar que, mientras se puede comparar los resultados de Lenguaje en PISA entre 2000, 2003, 2006, 2009 y...
Valor del pre-kinder: elementos para el debate
Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst | November 20, 2013 11:00am New Evidence Raises Doubts on Obama’s Preschool for All Last week legislation was introduced in the Senate and House to create federally funded universal pre-k for 4-year-olds. The details of the...
Retornos a la literacy: evidencia comparativa
Tazeen Fasih, Harry Anthony Patrinos, Chris Sakellariou Functional Literacy, Heterogeneity and the Returns to Schooling: Multi-Country Evidence Policy Research Working Paper 6697 Bajar el documento aquí <pdf> Abstract Little is known about which of the...
Cómo evaluar resultados de aprendizaje en la educación superior
How Best to Assess? Inside Higher ED, November 18, 2013 By Serena Golden ST. LOUIS – As the Obama administration pushes ahead on a controversial plan to create a new federal system for rating colleges – with a focus on affordability, access and outcomes – the subject...
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Educación: Fin y medios
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Enséñame, si puedes
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Crisis del pensamiento liberal
Al liberalismo le crecen los enanos (a izquierda y derecha) Los conservadores le acusan de olvidar los vínculos con...
Asistencia escolar: factores de retención
Attendance Playbook: Smart Solutions for Reducing Student Absenteeism Post-Pandemic Phyllis W. Jordan DOWNLOAD THE...