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...
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Estados Unidos
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...
Primera generación en la educación superior: la cuestión del capital cultural
Building Students' 'Cultural Capital' November 5, 2013 By Doug Lederman PITTSBURGH -- Students who are the first in their families to attend college face a set of disadvantages in terms of college enrollment, persistence and graduation -- a vexing problem, to be sure,...
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Universidades en Francia
Thierry Coulhon: France’s mega-universities ‘had to happen’ Former Macron adviser, president of leading engineering...
Colombia: Deuda estudiantil
“No queremos jóvenes endeudados hasta el cuello”: Mineducación reformará el Icetex El ministro de Educación, Daniel...
Director de Nueva Educación Pública: visión y propósitos
La Nueva Educación Pública avanza y funciona El objetivo es consolidar un sistema educativo armónico y eficiente que...
Currículos 19 países de América Latina y El Caribe durante la COVID-19
Nuevo Foco en Educación: Análisis a los currículos de 19 países de América Latina y El Caribe durante la COVID-19:...