This news won’t come as any surprise to regular readers. After all, I’ve talked about study abroad scams, er, irregularities frequently in this blog, and will be talking about far better alternatives that can save you thousands of dollars in my forthcoming book, The World Is Your Campus, due to be published by Random House [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Harvard’
December 18, 2007
Princeton Resists Pressure To Offer Online Courses
Unlike Yale, Harvard and MIT, Princeton University administrators have not jumped on the distance learning bandwagon.
This article in the Daily Princetonian offers some interesting quotes from administrators at both Yale and Princeton about the value of online learning.
Princeton, with its $10 billion endowment (one of the highest in the US) certainly has the means to implement [...]
November 28, 2007
Two Million Minutes To Be Screened In Palo Alto, California
The buzz about American education is about to get a lot louder.
The education documentary, Two Million Minutes, will be screened at the landmark Aquarius Theater in Palo Alto, California next Wednesday, December 5th at 7:30 pm.
Present at the screening will be Bob Compton, the film’s executive producer, along with Tim Draper, managing director of Silicon Valley [...]
November 10, 2007
Searing and Insightful: Bob Compton’s Thoughts on Harvard Grad School Response to Two Million Minutes
Bob Compton is frustrated.
He’s shaking his head over the reaction to his documentary, Two Million Minutes, by Harvard graduate students during a recent screening.
I’ve already mentioned this in a previous post, but over on Whitney Tilson’s blog, Bob really lays it out. You’ve got to read it.
The key piece in Bob’s missive:
Candidly, I don’t think [...]
October 28, 2007
The Folly of the Ivy League–Malcolm Gladwell Pokes Fun At Harvard, Yale and Princeton
Well, I’ve been focusing on the strike at Acadia University for the last couple of weeks, and I’m happy to report that both sides are still “in talks” this weekend and we’re all hoping that papers will get signed and kids will start classes again by Wednesday. Fingers crossed.
Today, let’s head south of the Canadian/US [...]
October 8, 2007
Harvard…or Prison? It’s The Same Price
Ted Koppel’s story about the California prison system aired last night on the Discovery Channel. Read more about it here.
And though there is a lot to digest in this documentary–confession: I’ve just read about it online, both previews and reviews, as it was not shown here in Argentina–I can’t get past this little bit:
**It costs [...]
