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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 It’s been my opinion all along that students are perfectly aware of the breakdown in higher education that is going on all around them. They know which schools are party schools. They know when classes are being dumbed down. They know that administrators will bend over backward to make excuses for them in the name of . . . → Read More: Student journalist describes grade inflation 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? You may have read about the brave biology professor at Louisiana State University who dared to award low test scores for students who failed her tests, but you might not understand the reasons this happened. In case you missed it, you can read the USA Today story about this here. In party school culture, "retention" has become the primary . . . → Read More: At party schools, only brave teachers award low grades One of my new heroes is Sally Dear, an adjunct at Binghamton University in New York, who took a stand against corrupt college administrators who ordered her to fix the grades of a college basketball player with a spotty attendance record who was later arrested for selling and using crack cocaine. With 11 years of experience teaching . . . → Read More: Professor refuses order to fix grades for crackhead hoopster It's that time of year again. All the young scholars have flown away from my little college city and there is a strange stillness, especially at night. Not a single terrified scream or cackle of laughter and no more incessant booming of Hip Hop from car windows with a rapper bragging about all the ho's he's beat up so far . . . → Read More: ‘Tis the season to celebrate fraudulent grade reports Stuart Rojstaczer has been a hero of mine for a long time now. A former professor of geophysics at Duke, he has gone full time into exposing how inflated grades have damaged higher education in America. He is a muckraker and true heretic of the first order, forcing colleges to look closely at the awful problem . . . → Read More: Grade Inflation Goes Wild at America’s Colleges To understand what’s wrong with grade inflation at American colleges, imagine that the International Olympic Committee made the following announcement:
“Because we have received so many complaints from losing athletes that their self-esteem has been damaged . . . → Read More: Grade inflation: Why not just give everyone an A? |
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