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Also worked in edtech for many years and while I understand Audrey got the reputation for saying the negative, someone had to do it. The general media is so uncritically positive (…

Yes! Expertise is good, but overrated. I've found that you can be much happier getting good enough at a broad range of skills that combine professional, personal and whimsical

Availability is only part of the answer. As article notes, even when it's available, far fewer men take it. In my experience, it still comes down to the known hit to your career. I…

Ah, the problems with the college. College majors are by design imperfect. Journalism, Math, Computer Science - those are very broad strokes and rarely map directly to the skills o…

I have to disagree with you. This will make standardized testing worse, not better. With human grading, the humanities managed to avoid (to an extent) the extreme standardization o…

"It's not just jacking up prices; it's about keeping competition down to reasonable levels. Limiting the number of restaurants means that there will be enough customers for most of…

Why promise to be around forever? Glad they are working toward a sustainable business, but "made to last" is good, "made to last forever" is hyperbole. No company can guarantee tha…

Thiel Fellowship draws stellar applicants who I suspect would be successful, college or not. I do wish more regular American high school students got the opportunity to do somethin…

I dont think students are all in the clear in the least bit. I just happen to believe that permitting online resources implies permitting collaboration, as the internet is a tool f…

Um..yes. Study groups or websites are online resources. So is facebook. If a student posts the questions online and starts discussions with anonymous posters, or even reads relevan…

I initially read this without looking at the date at the top (1997). Made me a little sad that I assumed the entire exchange happened recently. Not much has changed in the 15 years…

Worth noting that a way NOT to teach kids to love math is to inundate them with arithmetic. My math education, like many in the US, was an endless barrage of memorizing facts, solv…

“A large part of the plagiarism arises from lack of understanding of the expected standards of behavior in U.S. academic institutions" Or maybe it arises from perfect understanding…