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Over the years, I've had some really bad ideas for things I might write. Lowlights include:
- The great American postal novel. The rags-to-riches story of a mailman who becomes a junk mail
baron.
- A tale of a party planning firm that strikes...
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This week marked the fourth annual Education Innovation Summit in Phoenix, Arizona. Originally
a small conference that attracted a room full of friends who had been toiling for years to make the
education private sector something more than an oxymoron, this year's...
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I had the pleasure of attending law school in New Haven right after legalized gambling was introduced
to Puritan New England in the form of the giant Foxwoods Casino in nearby Ledyard, CT. During my
first year of law school, I attended the opening of the rival Mohegan Sun...
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MOOC providers must have been singing along last week as the Democratic leader in the California State
Senate introduced a measure that would require state-supported institutions to award credit for faculty-approved online courses taken by students unable to register...
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It was Napoleon who famously said "in politics, stupidity is not a handicap." This adage encapsulates
much of what happens in Washington, DC, where a panoply of apolitical issues are bogged down in
political gridlock. It's a natural result and desired goal of the...
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In last week's State of the Union address, President Obama said he would ask Congress to change the
Higher Education Act "so that affordability and value are included in determining which colleges receive
certain types of federal aid."
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"How should families think about college affordability?...
At many colleges, almost no one pays the sticker price."
- Chronicle of Higher Education
It has been over a year since the Occupy Wall Street movement flowed...
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Never has so much been made by so many about so few.
Last week's announcement by Udacity and the California State University system that they would jointly
develop remedial and introductory MOOCs, starting initially at San Jose State University, and offer
them for...
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What makes American higher education exceptional? Most Americans would argue quality, which
it turns out boils down to a discrete mix of readily quantifiable educational inputs like spending per
student, and outputs relating to research, but not student outcomes. Beyond the top...
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Since establishing University Ventures nearly two years ago, we have written and spoken on many aspects of higher education and online education in particular. With nearly...
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