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When my college journalism students refused to do the work I assigned for them in my classes, they told me the problem was that it was “too much work” or “not any fun.” This connection puzzled me for years. Since when was learning supposed to be fun? When I learned how to write it was hard work. . . . → Read More: Is Big Bird to blame for student learning problems? A story in yesterday’s New York Times focused on the high-tech services colleges are using to detect cheating on tests — spy cameras, web sites that detect plagiarism, even ways to locate cheat sheets on baseball cap brims. Check the story out here. But buried in the story is the crucial question. Why are a majority of . . . → Read More: 61% of college students admit cheating on tests They've spent an average of six years at college and don't know much about grammar, civics or math, but today's college graduates spent tens of thousands of dollars to buy a diploma and now they're ready for the workforce, right? Wrong, according to researchers at York College in Pennsylvania. You can read the NPR report "College Grads Unprepared for Workplace." Their . . . → Read More: Missing from college curriculum: How to get a job 101 An article this week in the New York Times spells out what I have been writing in this blog for two years now. We're sending too many unprepared and disengaged students to college for all the wrong reasons. You can read the article here: Plan B: Skip College. It wasn't that long ago that only the best . . . → Read More: Why send kids to college when most of them drop out? A new study by two economists has found that the number of hours students spend studying each week declined by 10 hours between 1961 and 2003, but does not explain why that happened. Never fear, Tom Bartlett, one of the best writers for the Chronicle of Higher Education, offers his own suggestions here. Among the reasons . . . → Read More: Why don’t students study anymore? For nearly two years now I've been attempting to describe in this blog what life is like for students on a party school campus, and now two freshmen have done it in just four minutes! This is definitely a must see for anyone considering sending children to a subprime party school. Check it out: Keene Anthem by Lauren . . . → Read More: Keene Party School Anthem: “Livin’ up your college dream: NOT!” A very interesting op-ed piece in the Boston Globe this week shows exactly what happens in party school college classrooms. Students are texting away under the desk, making excuses about why their work is never completed and sleeping through their classes. I have been there, folks and this is all true! What makes Kara . . . → Read More: Lazy American college students aren’t interested in learning Back in the day, midterm grades served a very useful purpose. For good students it was reassurance that they were on the right track and learning what they were supposed to be learning. For failing students it was a wake up call. "You better wake up, mister, or you could fail . . . → Read More: Colleges’ class drop policies encourage irresponsible students John MacLane, the city manager of Keene, N.H., the city in which my office is located, recently had a rude awakening in the fascinating world of party schools. MacLane moonlights as an adjunct professor in the political science department at Keene State College, where one day he noticed that many of his students were texting and twittering in . . . → Read More: “Shut up, professsor. We pay your salary!” For more than 2,000 years, higher education consisted of things like seminars and lectures where students gathered around wise instructors, asked questions and made comments. Today, of course, that is way too much work for millennials who don't have time to read the book or think about anything other than their immediate needs. To accommodate these non-reading, non-thinking . . . → Read More: Dumbing down college participation with “classroom clickers” |
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