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Rank Teacher Ranking
There has been a little discussion on an informal email list at my university about the Op-Ed by Bill Gates in the New York Times that argues against public rankings of teachers. It’s a position that in some ways constrains the Gates Foundation’s seeming interest in quantifying teaching performance. It led to questions we have [...]
Posted in Teaching Also tagged assessment, Bill Gates, education, Education reform, Educational philosophy, Educational psychology, Gates Foundation, higher education, measurement, merit, Teacher, Teaching, the New York Times 1 Comment
A farewell to academia
There is a scathing elegiac on modern higher ed written by a departing mid-career professor that appears in Inside HigherEd. After too many years at this job (I am in my mid-40s), I have grown to question higher education in ways that cannot be rectified by a new syllabus, or a sabbatical, or, heaven forbid, [...]
Posted in Teaching Also tagged Council of Independent Colleges, Criticism of college and university rankings, Eleanor Duckworth, General, good teacher, intercollegiate sports programs, Ivy League, mid-career professor, National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, Pragmatists, professor, Teaching, University administration 3 Comments
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