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| A Tale of Two Newmans | The expanding controversy over President Simon Newman鈥檚 words and actions at Mount St. Mary鈥檚 University in Maryland provides an opportunity to reflect on how much has changed since a previous Newman, Cardinal John Henry Newman, authored his still widely read The Idea of a University (1853).鈥 |
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| Neem has essay published on the emergence of common schools | |||
| Margaret Spellings's Vision for Higher Education | In the week between the revelation that the University of North Carolina鈥檚 Board of Governors was looking at former Education Secretary Margaret Spellings to lead the 16-campus system and her ultimate selection last Friday, most of the reporting and commentary focused on whether the board and鈥 |
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| Where our notions of public, charter schools come from | Last month, the Washington state Supreme Court determined that charter schools are ineligible to receive public school funds under the 1889 state constitution. |
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| These Videos Could Change How You Think About Teaching | Going to lunch with students changed Michael Wesch鈥檚 attitude about teaching, and he is trying to share his personal transformation through a series of videos he hopes will go viral. |
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| The Daily Show in the Age of Irony | As Jon Stewart leaves the stage, we have a chance to reflect on his legacy. News comedy is much older than Stewart, but Stewart became not just a superstar but鈥攆or some Americans鈥攁 lodestar. How could that be? |
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| Whatcom View: Society, law benefit from scholarship in humanities | Are the humanities useless? Or can they produce 鈥渋nventions鈥 like the natural sciences? If our only understanding of invention is a technological product, perhaps the humanities are useless. But if we include new insights into culture, insights that transform our relationship with the world鈥 |
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| The Social Impact of Humanities 'Inventions' | Are the humanities useless? Or can they produce 鈥渋nventions鈥 like the natural sciences? If our only understanding of invention is a technological product, perhaps the humanities are useless. But if we include new insights into culture, insights that transform our relationship with the world鈥 |
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| Controversial online college on its way to North Carolina? | Johann Neem, a professor at Western Washington University who has also been critical of WGU, says the model is especially troubling for its on focus low-income and working-class students. He fears that students with financial pressures at home will increasingly be steered to the WGU鈥檚 online鈥 |
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| Bringing a charter-school approach to college | There are, generally, three main reasons that students drop out of college. The first is financial. Even in-state annual tuition and fees at public universities averaged nearly $11,000 this school year, and if a funding source dries up, the bill can seem insurmountable. Another is inadequate鈥 |