Boise State can learn from Boise State
Higher Ed Watch’s Academic BCS, which ranks the top college football teams using academic indicators, shows Stanford as number one and Boise State as number two. Boise State’s football players are more...
View ArticleHa-Ya or community college?
It’s 2020. Harvard and Yale announce their merger. Ha-Ya’s new president, “tiger daughter” Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld, pledges to slash tuition to attract students. Shanghai University is buying Princeton....
View ArticleVirtual Stanford course draws 58,000
So far, 58,000 people in 175 countries have signed up for a free-, no-credit, online course in artificial intelligence, one of three pilot classes by Stanford computer science professors. The online...
View ArticleStanford ‘brands’ online high school
Stanford University is attaching its name and prestige to an online high school that will graduate 30 students in June, reports the New York Times. What’s been known as the Education Program for Gifted...
View ArticleUdacious
Sebastian Thrun, who drew 160,000 students to his free, online artificial intelligence course, is quitting Stanford University to create a free online university called Udacity. There were more...
View ArticleStanford: Too worldly? Too useful?
Is Stanford Too Close to Silicon Valley? asks Ken Auletta in the New Yorker. The campus has its jocks, stoners, and poets, but what it is famous for are budding entrepreneurs, engineers, and computer...
View ArticleThe best bang-for-the-buck colleges
The University of California at San Diego tops Washington Monthly‘s list of the top colleges for social mobility (enrolling and graduating low-income students at an affordable price), research and...
View ArticleMinnesota: Free online courses are illegal
It’s illegal to offer free, online courses in Minnesota, state education officials have told Coursera, which partners with universities to provide massive open online courses, or MOOC’s. Under state...
View ArticleKids make cool stuff, learn ‘grit’
Teaching kids to make things teaches problem-solving, perseverance and “grit,” reports Wired. When Eugene Korsunskiy and seven of his fellow students from Stanford University’s d.school set out to tour...
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Study: Disadvantaged students in U.S. are gaining
U.S.15-year-olds fare better on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) exam when the data is adjusted to compare similar students concludes a study by Stanford Graduate School of...
View ArticleHow the elite college students eat
Steve the hasher was serving our table in the college dorm dining hall.”Hey, Steve,” said one of my table mates. “You’ve got your thumb in the mashed potatoes.” Steve said, loudly, “I’m the only guy...
View ArticleFind the top college — for you
Stanford is America’s top college, followed by Pomona, Princeton, Yale and Columbia, according to Forbes‘ new rankings. The magazine also lets college aspirants input a grade point average, SAT/ACT...
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Cost is #1 college worry
Stanford is the number one dream college for students and parents with Harvard in second, according to the Princeton Review’s annual conducts our annual College Hopes and Worries survey. Respondents...
View ArticleWhat’s the best college for the country?
Washington Monthly’s 2014 college rankings show the most “public-minded” institutions based on social mobility, research and public service. We all benefit when colleges produce groundbreaking research...
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Learning how to discover
Americans need to learn how to discover, writes David Edwards in Wired. Over the next 20 years, as population rises by 2 billion people, we need to discover new ways to feed people, “new science,...
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Stanford player promotes reading
Wayne Lyons will read the quarterback when he covers pass receivers for the Stanford Cardinal in Tuesday’s Foster Farms Bowl. He’s into reading, reports Elliott Almond for the San Jose Mercury News. A...
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‘Diversity’ keeps Asians out of top colleges
Do Diversity Initiatives Indirectly Discriminate Against Asian Americans? asks Andrew Giambrone in The Atlantic. I’m not sure “indirectly” is accurate, but otherwise the answer is “yes.” Students for...
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End the craziness with college lottery
Stanford offered admission to 2,040 of the 47,450 students who applied in 2018: That’s 4.3 percent, a new low. Most of the 45,410 who were rejected were excellent students who could have been...
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Clone Stanford, Yale, Princeton
Getting into an elite college is insanely competitive, writes David L. Kirp, a Berkeley professor and author of the The College Dropout Scandal, in the New York Times. Stanford University The solution...
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