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Educating Brilliance?
By Matthew Denhart and Christopher Matgouranis Today’s “everyone is a winner” culture has spilled over into higher education. Over the last several decades, there has been consistent grade inflation in...
View ArticleAbolish Colleges of Education
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, new “normal schools” were created –colleges to train teachers. Established universities also added schools or colleges of education. There is...
View ArticleShould We Abolish Colleges of Education?
I believe the following stylized facts are roughly correct. 1. American K-12 students perform in a mediocre fashion on international standardized tests, and other data likewise suggest that the...
View ArticleDoes the Root Problem Lie with Colleges of Education?
Last April, Richard Vedder suggested (here and here) that there might, just might, be a connection between low-quality collegiate instruction at colleges of education (notorious across campuses for...
View ArticleThe Failure of Ed Schools
I especially liked the concluding paragraph of this piece from Education Next: After observing and teaching in a variety of classroom settings over the course of my graduate studies, I have concluded...
View ArticleRevising Teacher Education: Meaningful Change or Window Dressing?
One of the scandals about American higher education is its complicity in creating the mediocrity in our K-12 schools. American primary and secondary education students do so-so at best in standardized...
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