Colleges' Concerted Campaign for Ignorance
The National Student Clearinghouse data is good, certainly better than nothing, but it’s very disappointing that a better source of information about college-going doesn’t exist yet. Laws like this make it substantially more costly and difficult to evaluate the long run impacts of our K-12 policies while providing only an illusion of increased privacy (in my opinion).
Should the federal government be pursuing a more robust dataset for college students? What about the workforce? Where should the line be drawn, both in terms of the federal government’s role and our privacy?
Trying to Measure What Students Really Learn
On the inadequacy of the CLA.
Eliminate Law School?
Why do we have separate 3-yr law degrees?
Riddle Remains in Academically Adrift | by Paul Attewell
Great review of Academically Adrift pointing out that strong scholarship is overshadowed by trying to tell a broader narrative about higher education in the US.
California’s Higher Education Disaster
Great review of California’s higher ed woes.
