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Sunday, April 22, 2012

School Tech Connect: You Know It's A Bad Idea When...

School Tech Connect: You Know It's A Bad Idea When...:


You Know It's A Bad Idea When...

I just now noticed that David Brooks just made an argument for something like value-added assessments at college, which illustrates the adage, "If there's a really, really bad idea, then David Brooks will be in favor of it and will in fact become this instant expert on it because as a person who is essentially a blogger with a column in a newspaper, that is his right." It's a terrible adage.

Sherman Dorn has already dismantled the Brooks column as only Dorn can do.

One of the big crimes that colleges are committing is evidently this:

In their book, “We’re Losing Our Minds,” Richard P. Keeling and Richard H. Hersh argue that many colleges and universities see themselves passively as “a kind of bank with