Harvard, MIT partner to offer free online courses: Harvard and MIT are donating $30 million each to develop education via the Internet. Online students will not earn credit, but the move is still seen as bringing prestige to the field.
Photo: Harvard University. Credit: Kelvin Ma / Bloomberg
California leads nation in escalation of college costs: California’s public universities enacted the highest average tuition increase, 21%, of any state, the College Board finds. Steep state funding cuts to higher ed were significant factors in pushing up tuition and fees nationwide.
Photo: Cal students pass through Sather Gate at UC Berkeley. Credit: Christopher Reynolds / Los Angeles Times
The prime minister of England and the German chancellor both lost a son, as well.
I’m not sure if this should be classified as fun…but it certainly is astounding.
Love Matt Damon
The complete exchange between Matt Damon and Reason TV (by gothamschools)
OMIGOD. HERE IS THE REST OF IT.
Attn: Inothernews, in case you needed something else to make your head explode.
You know guys, she WENT to a school once, so she KNOWS what she’s talking about.
Head exploded, but Matt Damon kept me intact.
SO COOL. http://collegecost.ed.gov/catc/
reblogged via bbook:
Of course NYU is ranked fourth (the first page isn’t a school.) Who ranked first? Why, our vegan commune evil twin The New School.
Majoring in Armchair Anarchism, minoring in Smoker’s Cough
Majoring in Lynchian Pastiche with a minor in Stress Eating
“Twenty candles on a cake. Twenty Camels in a pack. Twenty months in the federal pen. Twenty shots of tequila down a young girl’s gullet. Twenty centuries since Our Lord’s last pratfall, and after all that time we still don’t know where a college education goes when it goes.”
—Tom Robbins…sort of.
Who Pays Teachers Best for their Time?
Hours primary school teachers spend working on the left.
Teachers salary after 15 years of experience / GDP per capita on the right
The biggie version of this infographic also includes: how much teachers around the world make (Luxembourgh tops), average class size (Mexico tops… or bottoms if you will) and salary levels vs student achievement (Finland tops).
The rare good infographic.
(Source: futurejournalismproject)
One of America’s most successful charter-school networks receives more government money than it has previously admitted — and it’s also not as successful as it has stated, according to a new study.
It’s like finding out Santa isn’t real.
“The findings in our report show that students with disabilities and students classified as English language learners are greatly underrepresented,” he wrote.
Yes, give a school more money, take away students who have more obstacles, and allow them to lie — and they will seem amazing and the solution to all of our education woes.
