The model of higher education today rests on a system created in the Middle Ages, when knowledge was highly concentrated in a few places and in a few hands. It has evolved only slowly over the centuries.
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4/3/20
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This is the time of year when families across the country are struggling to find the right colleges for their soon-to-graduate sons and daughters. There’s some promising news on the horizon for some of those students . . .
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1/19/17
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I’ve heard a lot of local chatter lately about Common Core. I know teachers are distressed and parents confused. To be honest . . .
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3/20/15
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New York state is considering an initiative at 10 of its state prisons to give prisoners a college education. The program would bring college professors into the prisons . . .
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2/27/14
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