Month: February 2014

Higher Education

Like Everything Else, School Reform is All About the Benjamins Too

James Rovira

Originally posted on Punkonomics (@DearBalak):
Or in other words, how the private sector is gutting educating to profit from your tax dollars. My wife has worked at a few charter schools now, and they were all — without exception — purely profit driven, unconcerned with students or with learning, guilty of pressuring faculty to push students through regardless of whether or not they had learned, and in some cases virtually abusive in their treatment of faculty. Profit and education don’t belong together. There’s no such thing as a good for-profit school once you go beyond trade and vocational schools. At best, they rise to an … Continue reading Like Everything Else, School Reform is All About the Benjamins Too

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American History and Culture, Higher Education

Just who does the New York Times turn to for higher ed expertise? (essay) | Inside Higher Ed

James Rovira

Great article: Jonathan Senchyne calls out Nicolas Kristof for his misguided editorial on the lack of “public intellectuals.” Who really gets space in The New York Times? So-called “innovative educators” buying space to promote for-profit ventures, none of whom are actually educators or innovators — just profiteers. I would add that there are few or no true public intellectuals actively writing in venues such as the NYT, Salon, or Slate because educated opinion making fine distinctions in measured tones isn’t very good click bait. Careful reasoning sounds like hair splitting to most people when, in fact, it is really just careful reasoning taking into … Continue reading Just who does the New York Times turn to for higher ed expertise? (essay) | Inside Higher Ed

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Higher Education

Assignment: Research Your Adjunct Teachers – The Conversation – Blogs – The Chronicle of Higher Education

James Rovira

The story told by this former adjunct instructor isn’t exceptional: it’s the norm, and explains very clearly why students are being ripped off by college and university programs that rely primarily on adjunct instructors. Assignment: Research Your Adjunct Teachers – The Conversation – Blogs – The Chronicle of Higher Education. Continue reading Assignment: Research Your Adjunct Teachers – The Conversation – Blogs – The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Higher Education, Law School

Enrollment Plummeting at These Law Schools

James Rovira

Originally posted on Finding My College:
I’ve written about the hard times law schools are going through. Applications are dropping like a rock and for good reason: law schools are overpriced and job prospects for newly minted lawyers are bleak. Here are 18 law schools that have experienced enrollment declines of more than 30% since 2010 (the list was compiled by The National Jurist): University of La Verne -66.2% Cooley Law School -40.6% (saw the biggest drop in raw numbers) Catholic University -39.5% New York Law School -38.7% University of Dayton -38.5% Pacific McGeorge -38.4% Widener U. – Harrisburg -36.9%… Continue reading Enrollment Plummeting at These Law Schools

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