Posted in Education, General Thoughts, tagged Asian Americans on June 11, 2008 | No Comments »
The Times today reports:
The image of Asian-Americans as a homogeneous group of high achievers taking over the campuses of the nation’s most selective colleges came under assault in a report issued Monday.
The report, by New York University, the College Board and a commission of mostly Asian-American educators and community leaders, largely avoids the debates over [...]
Posted in International and Comparative Education, tagged global competitiveness, Homeland Security, international students, visas on April 9, 2008 | No Comments »
No, not really: but the interim final rule published the other day by the Department of Homeland Security in the Federal Register is interesting nevertheless. What the interim final rule does is change some of the regulations affecting international students here in the U.S. on F-1 student visas (there are about 600,000 or so international [...]
Posted in Education, Institutional theory, Science and Technology, tagged schooling on December 4, 2007 | No Comments »
An article in the Sunday New York Times details how a few school districts are now using SchoolStat, a data-collection system modeled after the Compstat system famously implemented by William Bratton in New York in the mid-1990s, and now used in police departments around the country. The SchoolStat system allows district leaders to collect data [...]
Posted in Academia, Education, tagged rankings, world university rankings on November 10, 2007 | No Comments »
Not much time to write in recent days, but I thought I’d point out the interesting dissections at Beerkens Blog and University Ranking Watch on the Times Higher Education Supplement - Quacquarelli Symonds world university rankings. Searching around suggests that no one thinks that these studies are based on sound methodology - Eric Beerkens says [...]
Posted in Asian Studies, Education, Okinawa, tagged global education, higher education on October 21, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Courtesy of Beerkens’ Blog, an alert to a new web site / news service devoted to global higher education, University World News. (The title sounds a little tabloidish to me for some reason, but oh well, those are just my ears doing the talking… 
In any event, the idea is something like an Inside Higher [...]
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