Your College-Bound Kid

Jan 31, 2019

In this episode you will hear:

• (3:11) In this week’s news, “As students return to college, a basic question persists: What are they learning?” by Jon Marcus. What is known publicly about what and whether college students learn is mixed. Some schools insist that measuring learning in college, and reporting the...

Jan 24, 2019

In this episode you will hear:

• (1:54)In this week’s news, “A Tale of Two Institutions: Amherst And Wisconsin Take Education Down Different Paths”, by Willard Dix of Forbes. Dix draws attention to the difference in views of higher education’s purpose, by contrasting a liberal arts and a public institution –...

Jan 17, 2019

In this episode you will hear:

• (2:39)In this week’s news,”Furor over Blended and Active Learning”, by Mark Lieberman of Inside Higher Ed. Business students at the University of Central Florida are upset because the school has sprung a new learning model on them that has the majority of their learning time -...

Jan 10, 2019

In this episode you will hear:

• (3:08) In this week’s news, “As student head back to campus, colleges fear a decline in international enrollment” by Sophie Quinton. Quinton reports how some schools have been cutting professors, programs, even athletic teams in response to falling international enrollments. She...

Jan 3, 2019

In this episode you will hear:

• (2:15) In this week’s news, “The Problem With PLUS: How Parents Buckle Under the Weight of College Debt” by Susannah Snider. Snider highlights the various reasons older Americans are the leading student loan debtors by way of Parent PLUS loans in this US News and World Report...