The Education Faculty November 4, 2013 By Scott Jaschik Schools of education need to improve the way they evaluate faculty members -- whether on or off the tenure track -- according to two reports released Friday by the American Educational Research Association. One...
Alumnos de alto logro entre estudiantes de bajos ingresos
Infographic | March 21, 2013 Key Findings from "The Hidden Supply of High-Achieving, Low-Income Students" Download the paper (3.2 MB) A study presented by Caroline M. Hoxby and Christopher Avery at the Spring 2013 Conference on the Brookings Papers on Economic...
Destrezas comparadas de jóvenes en los EEUU
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...
Entrevista: Condonación CAE
Exministro Brunner considera “imposible” condonar de manera universal el CAE “tanto en este gobierno como en los que...
Comunicación sin agenda
Comunicación sin agenda "El Gobierno, a pesar del empeño y empatía del Presidente, no logra transmitir un relato que...
Las paradojas del A Favor y el En Contra del 17 de diciembre
Las paradojas del A Favor y el En Contra del 17 de diciembre por José Joaquín Brunner, 29 noviembre, 2023 1 Estamos...
Condonación al CAE
Condonación al CAE: ¿Cómo el Gobierno cumplirá este compromiso? El ministro Marcel señaló que la solución a esta...