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John Warner
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The Problem of Surveillance
The Problem of Assessment and Standardization, in which even the chief supporters of school reform admit how wrong they've been. (And yet this crowd is silent about the book, despite having been sent multiple copies.)
The Problem of Education Fads. Students have been subjected to one fad after another. Tell me this wouldn't make you anxious.
I'm gonna stop before I tweet the whole dang book, but it drives me batty that we have all this evidence about the damage schooling is doing to students and yet there's not enough talk about it and instead we're debating trivia.
An AHCA survey found that 87% of students had felt "overwhelmed" by all they had to do at least once in the last 12 months. 87%! Why are we not talking about students feeling overwhelmed? acha.org/documents/ncha…
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For an approach to teaching writing that values curiosity, agency, and student and teacher freedom as discussed in this op-ed, I humbly recommend The Writer’s Practice an approach built around engagement. nytimes.com/2019/03/30/opi…
I promise The Writer’s Practice is an improvement over a grim slog through competencies and proficiencies. It will get students thinking and thinking is learning. amazon.com/Writers-Practi…
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John Warner
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Massachusetts has the 4th, 7th, 9th, and 10th ranked private universities in terms of endowment per student. Public higher ed funding is in the bottom 10% on a per student basis. And so UMass is desperate. They need help. insidehighered.com/blogs/just-vis…
That's Harvard, Amherst, Williams, and MIT, and they could survive nicely without the lavish tax subsidies they receive from the government. Massachusetts more than any other state could benefit from reconsidering how favorably these schools are treated.
Harvard, Amherst, Williams, and MIT are not going to leave Massachusetts for other states if they have a slightly less advantageous deal than has been historically true. Those schools will also benefit from a healthy public higher ed ecosystem.
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Massachusetts is a microcosm for all public higher ed. State starves institutions. Institutions feel forced to take big swings at increasing revenue, accruing debt and risking entire future. It's not sustainable. Stop it, before it's too late. insidehighered.com/blogs/just-vis…
Maybe there is room for a couple more players in the national online university space. (I doubt it.) Even if there is, there certainly isn't room for all those institutions eyeing that space as a route towards sustainability. Taking on debt for this kind of long shot is foolish.
States need to examine the decades of favorable treatment they've given private institutions. This is particularly true in Massachusetts. The state is subsidizing Harvard, MIT, Amherst with millions of $'s of public money. Why not redress that historical imbalance?
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