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Current Topic: Education

Write Long, Badly and Prosper
Topic: Education 4:02 am EDT, May 29, 2005

When the administrators of the SAT announced that their new test would include a 25-minute essay portion, writing teachers around the country were optimistic. We hoped it would be a genuine test of writing ability, and that over time it would increase the emphasis on good writing in high schools and lead to better-prepared, more-literate students being sent off to college.

Unfortunately, that no longer seems likely. Instead, the SAT essay has turned out to be a completely artificial exercise that appears to reward students for writing badly.

Write Long, Badly and Prosper


Evolution vs. Creationism, Redux
Topic: Education 12:35 pm EDT, May 22, 2005

I hope that school boards will come to their senses. In the meantime, though, my advice is to avoid being hospitalized in Kansas.

Evolution vs. Creationism, Redux


College Degree Nearly Doubles Annual Earnings
Topic: Education 8:51 am EST, Mar 28, 2005

New information from the US Census Bureau reinforces the value of a college education: workers 18 and over with a bachelor’s degree earn an average of $51,206 a year, while those with a high school diploma earn $27,915. Workers with an advanced degree make an average of $74,602, and those without a high school diploma average $18,734.

A white woman with a bachelor's degree typically earned $37,800 in 2003, compared with $43,700 for a college-educated Asian woman and $41,100 for a black woman. Hispanic women took home $37,600 a year.

A white male with a college diploma earns far more than any similarly educated man or woman - $66,000 a year. Among men with bachelor's degrees, Asians earned $52,000 a year, Hispanics $49,000 and blacks $45,000.

Are you keeping up?

Be sure to check out the detailed spreadsheets, too.

College Degree Nearly Doubles Annual Earnings


Harvard Needs More Hackers
Topic: Education 9:21 am EST, Mar 16, 2005

Lost in this technologically enabled drama is a sense of proportionality.

Harvard Needs More Hackers


An SAT Without Analogies Is Like: (A) A Confused Citizenry...
Topic: Education 9:16 am EST, Mar 15, 2005

Intentionally misleading comparisons are becoming the dominant mode of public discourse.

In these instant-messaging, 500-cable-channel times, the emphasis is on communicating for the sake of communicating rather than on having something meaningful to say.

Amen to that. Without the SAT to keep the youngsters in line, pretty soon we're going to need grammar police!

An SAT Without Analogies Is Like: (A) A Confused Citizenry...


Failing the Wrong Grades
Topic: Education 9:04 am EST, Mar 15, 2005

Just because Bill Gates is ready to pour millions of dollars into a big new idea doesn't make it a good one.

Failing the Wrong Grades


Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT
Topic: Education 9:41 am EST, Mar  9, 2005

The MIT hacking culture has given us such treasures as police cars and cows on the Great Dome, a disappearing door to the President's office, and the commencement game of "Al Gore Buzzword Bingo." Hacks can be technical, physical, virtual, or verbal. Often the underlying motivation is to conquer the inaccessible and make possible the improbable. Hacks can express dissatisfaction with local culture or with administrative decisions, but mostly they are remarkably good-spirited. They are also by definition ephemeral. Fortunately, the MIT Museum has amassed a unique collection of hack-related pictures, reports, and remnants.

"Nightwork" collects the best materials from this collection, to entertain innocent bystanders and inspire new generations of practitioners.

Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT


MIT says it won't admit hackers
Topic: Education 9:34 am EST, Mar  9, 2005

The headline says it all ...

MIT says it won't admit hackers


Mind and Hand: The Birth of MIT
Topic: Education 10:03 pm EST, Feb 15, 2005

The motto on the MIT seal, "Mens et Manus" -- "mind and hand" -- signals the Institute's dedication to what MIT founder William Barton Rogers called "the most earnest cooperation of intelligent culture with industrial pursuits."

Mind and Hand traces the ideas about science and education that have shaped MIT and defined its mission -- from the new science of the Enlightenment era and the ideals of representative democracy spurred by the Industrial Revolution to new theories on the nature and role of higher education in nineteenth-century America. MIT emerged in mid-century as an experiment in scientific and technical education, with its origins in the tension between these old and new ideas.

Mind and Hand: The Birth of MIT


Preventing Suicides on Campus
Topic: Education 8:44 am EST, Dec  8, 2004

To the Editor:

You write of depressed and suicidal college students as if their problems were purely psychological.

What if the problem lies in the social organization of universities rather than in the psyches of students?

Preventing Suicides on Campus


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