Measuring America’s Decline, in Three Charts Posted by John Cassidy, The New Yorker, October 23, 2013 In recent years, a number of international surveys have raised alarms that the United States is falling behind other countries in terms of educational achievement....
Escuelas efectivas: ¿más insumos o mejores prácticas docentes?
Getting Beneath the Veil of Effective Schools: Evidence From New York City By Will Dobbie and Roland G. Fryer, Jr. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2013, 5(4): 28–60 http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/app.5.4.28 In this paper, we collect data on the inner-workings...
Atención: ¿quien pone atención en la sala de clase?
Texting in Class Inside Higher ED, October 21, 2013 By Scott Jaschik If you are leading a class and imagine that students seem more distracted than ever by their digital devices, it's not your imagination. And they aren't just checking their e-mail a single time. A...
Sobre la literatura de la reforma de la educación superior en EEUU
Higher Education’s Reform-Industrial Complex By Kevin R. McClure, The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 14, 2013, 2:33 pm As a Ph.D. student researching American higher education, I find it virtually impossible to keep up with the reform literature...
Más universidades entran al juego de los MOOCs
MOOC Provider edX More Than Doubles Its University Partners May 21, 2013, 3:07 pm By Jeffrey R. Young Fifteen more universities have agreed to offer free massive open online courses through edX, a nonprofit provider of MOOCs founded by the Massachusetts Institute of...
Extenso reportaje sobre Laureate a nivel global
Going Global Elizabeth Redden and Paul Fein, Inside Higher ED, October 10, 2013 Laureate Education is big. Like 800,000 students attending 78 institutions in 30 countries big. Yet the privately held for-profit university system has largely remained out of the...
Más sobre Ranking THE
Those Times Higher Education World Rankings (2013-14 Edition) Posted on October 4, 2013 by Alex Usher So, yesterday saw the release of the latest round of the THE rankings. They were a bit of a damp squib, and not just for Canadian schools (which really didn’t move...
Nuevo ranking THE 2013-2014
La información completa aquí: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/ For the third year in a row, CalTech keeps its place at the top of Times Higher Education's 2013 rankings of the top 100 universities worldwide. Harvard University moves up...
Discusión semejante a la chilena
2-Year Degree's Value? For a Few, Less Than High School, Report Says By Katherine Mangan, The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 3, 2013 Over all, community colleges deliver a negative return on investment to taxpayers, and 15 percent of them produce graduates who...
Futuras trayectorias de estudios superiores
The New, Nonlinear Path Through College Weezie Yancey-Siegel left Pitzer College two years ago to fashion her own higher education. Now 21, she has started a blog about alternatives to college and has landed a job at a new-media start-up through...
Derecha chilena: once consideraciones y un modelo para armar
Derecha chilena: once consideraciones y un modelo para armar ¿Hay una forma iliberal de democracia en ciernes, con...
IA y propiedad intelectual
Authors call for AI companies to stop using their work without consent Margaret Atwood, Viet Thanh Nguyen and 8,000...
Entrevista sobre coyuntura educacional y sobre los 50 años
Brunner y paro de profesores: "El Colegio hace años viene desacompasado de la realidad del sistema" Ver/escuchar aquí...
Argentina: las ciencias y su reciente evolución
Cambiar para cambiar Parte 1: La producción científica argentina decae Mario Albornoz, viernes, 23 de junio de 2023...