Five ways to modernize accreditation
Last month, I had the chance to join a compelling discussion on national higher education at the Beyond the Horizon conference led by the Higher […]
Last month, I had the chance to join a compelling discussion on national higher education at the Beyond the Horizon conference led by the Higher […]
May 17, 2016
The story is out that the U.S. Department of Education’s inspector general is scrutinizing Western Governors University (WGU), the nation’s largest competency-based university and a […]
Feb 1, 2016
Last week the Clayton Christensen Institute released a paper, which I wrote, that profiles three innovative teacher education programs: High Tech High Graduate School of […]
May 26, 2015
A Wall Street Journal article last week reported that the Obama administration is running into major political and technical obstacles in completing and rolling out […]
Feb 19, 2015
In the wake of the Department of Education’s release of the new gainful employment regulations, which are intended to protect students from poor-performing career college […]
Nov 6, 2014
Sylvia Manning, former president of the regional accrediting agency, the Higher Learning Commission, who was also infamously embroiled in the closure of Altius Education, has […]
Nov 3, 2014
President Obama’s college-ratings plan has evoked strong reactions—mostly criticisms and reservations from college leaders and postsecondary associations about performance-based measurements. Few seem to support the ...
Mar 12, 2014
I’ve always wished I knew I how to code. Thankfully, today, the opportunities to learn how abound through various online providers—many of them, free. For […]
Feb 12, 2014
Ideally, the job of teacher preparation programs is to produce effective teachers. But tracking and measuring teacher effectiveness is tedious and expensive work, so teacher […]
Jan 13, 2014
There is an interesting parallel between teacher education programs and the history of the computer industry. In the 1970s, refrigerator-sized minicomputers were the cutting-edge machines of […]
Dec 17, 2013