The Economist published an article titled Is the Decline of Reading Making Politics Dumber? (4 Sept 2025).
« The problem was less that these students of literature were not literary and more that they were barely even literate. »
Continue reading “Is the decline of reading making politics dumber?”Carl Hendrick wrote a Substack post titled The Humility of the Page: The Lost Ethics of Deep Reading (May 29, 2025).
Continue reading “The Lost Ethics of Deep Reading”Bots gaming the financial aid system are overwhelming enrollment for asynchronous online classes. Legitimate students are unable to enroll as classes fill quickly, delaying graduation. Once the classes start and fake students disappear, some classes are cancelled due to insufficient enrollment.
Here are two articles on the subject:
Continue reading “Surge in community college fake students defrauds financial aid and displaces legitimate students.”Alan Levinovitz wrote an article for The Chronicle of Higher Education titled Are Colleges Getting Disability Accommodations All Wrong? (September 25, 2024).
Continue reading “Are Colleges Getting Disability Accommodations All Wrong?”Richard Vedder wrote an article for the Washington Examiner titled Let Colleges Fail: How creative destruction can save higher education (17 September 2024).
Continue reading “How creative destruction can save higher education”Natalie Wexler wrote an article titled The College Kids are Not All Right (2 June 2024).
« Reports from professors point to an alarming decline in cognitive capabilities, even at selective institutions… College professors are reporting that their students are no longer capable of reading or writing the kinds of complex texts that used to be routine assignments. »
Continue reading “Natalie Wexler on the declining literacy skills of college students”Chester E. Finn Jr. wrote an article for Education Next titled When College Students Don’t Understand the Concept of Free Speech (22 September 2017).
Continue reading “only 36% of American adults percent could name the three branches of the U.S. government”Eileen G’Sell wrote an article the Chronicle of Higher Education titled Algorithms and The Problem with Intellectual Passivity (30 May 2024).
Continue reading “Algorithms and Intellectual Passivity”W. Trey Hill wrote an article for The Chronicle of Higher Education titled What Administrators Don’t Get About Data (12 July 2023).
Continue reading “What Administrators Don’t Get About Data”Sir Ken Robinson (1950-2020) gave a TedTalk in 2006 titled Do Schools kills Creativity?
Continue reading “If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original”
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