Education
‘A’ is for Average
By Walter Brasch at May 6, 2013 | 11:06 am | 0 Comment
About 1.8 million students will graduate from college this year, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. At least one-third of them will graduate with honors. In some colleges, about half will be honor graduates.
It’s not that the… Read the rest
[...read more]Designing Resilience in a Black Swan World
By Rock The Capital - Admin at March 11, 2013 | 12:45 pm | 0 Comment
David W. Orr, Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics, Oberlin College: Designing Resilience in a Black Swan World. Wednesday, March 27, 7:00 PM.
Bill McKibben, Middlebury College and 350.org: Front Lines of the Climate Fight. Thursday, April 11, 7:00 PM.… Read the rest
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America’s Culture is Signing on the Dotted Line
By Walter Brasch at March 4, 2013 | 10:54 am | 0 Comment
The signing season has begun.
Look through your local newspaper for the next few weeks, and youll see a lot of posed pictures of high school athletes.
Everyone will be at a desk or table.
Around each one will be… Read the rest
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Schools Get Good at Data Collection, but Is That Really Their Purpose?
By John Messeder at November 27, 2012 | 12:14 pm | 0 Comment
In one or another of my college classes, during a discussion about our constantly changing education system, the professor pointed out one constant remained virtually unscathed: children were being required to sit in rows and faithfully recite the dictums promulgated… Read the rest
[...read more]At What Point Does Education Become Spying
By John Messeder at November 23, 2012 | 2:15 pm | 0 Comment
Our children are getting entirely too used to living in a police state.
I remember when Officer Friendly graced children’s book. He often was a bit portly in his double-breasted overcoat with the shiny brass buttons. He carried a shillelagh,… Read the rest
[...read more]University Governance Doesn’t Represent the People
By Walter Brasch at November 19, 2012 | 7:00 am | 0 Comment
About 800,000 Pennsylvanians are members of labor unions, and the state has a long history of union rights and activism, neither of the two largest university systems has a labor representative on its governing board.
The only labor representative on… Read the rest
[...read more]Most Expensive State Colleges
By Eric Epstein at November 15, 2012 | 7:00 am | 0 Comment
National average: $8,244
| State | Tuition & Fees |
| 1) New Hampshire: | $13,507 |
| 2) Vermont: | $13,078 |
| 3) Pennsylvania: | $12,079 |
