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Tag Archives: student success
Changing Education Paradigms
A 12-minute video about education and change and ADHD and stuff like that. It’s worth our time.
Why the liberal arts in general and English in particular are important. Reason #67
A recent study performed by the Council for Aid to Education, reported that fully 40% of four-year-college graduates performed at less than a proficient level in measures of critical thinking. The graph below displays the gloomy results of this survey. … Continue reading
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No Cramming, Please
As the semester begins, we have 16 weeks ahead of us. Sixteen weeks, 112 days, four months–that’s a long time. But look ahead. At some point down the road, you’ll have a test in your sites. You’ll have two weeks … Continue reading
A New Model of University
What if you could go to a school where you didn’t learn information but instead learned how to process information. That’s the goal at a start-up school in California, the Minerva Project But while there are many things that make … Continue reading
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Tagged critical thinking, student success
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Get a Job–But Get the Right Job
Look at the larger version of this image to learn all manner of stuff about your working future.
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The Power of Noticing; The Power of Literature
Why do I think that the study of literature is important even for people who do not have plans to be English majors or to consign themselves to permanent poverty by teaching literature? Having just read a review of The Power … Continue reading
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You Can’t Afford to Be Lazy
Hey you–yeah you with the face–you need to pay attention to this. Slacking off in school is … well, it’s pretty bad, or so says this article from Bloomberg. American college graduates finished below the average of their peers in … Continue reading
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How to Win a Super Bowl
I did not have a dog in the fight of Super Bowl XLIX (pronounced Ex-Ell-Eye-Ex). My only speck of preference lay in the fact that my wife’s bike sports Seahawks colors. But I did appreciate the fact that, as seems … Continue reading →