21st Century Scholar

by Bill Tierney When I travel, I get the all too infrequent opportunity to catch up on my reading.  I just finished Landscapes of Betrayal, Landscapes of Joy: Curtisville in the Lives of its Teenagers by Herb Childress.  Childress is an architectural consultant and a gifted writer.  He wanted to know how and where high [...]

by David Dwyer If you have followed the blog this week, you’ll know that I’ve described the Millennial end-users who fill our schools today; confronted their context of global uncertainty; and projected learning goals for them that commission after commission have stated will stand them in good stead in the decades ahead. How must schools [...]

by David Dwyer For the past three days, I’ve shared views and data about the Millennials. They are the end users of our schools; they, not the institution of schooling should be our primary concern. While ambitious, I noted that only a small percentage of Millennials seem to have amassed the skills and knowledge that [...]

by David Dwyer I’ve shared two views of the millennial students who fill our classrooms: one portrayed them as optimistic, ambitious, and civil minded; the other showed a more somber side, an academic record that shows them floundering in and dropping out of our high schools. Why the discrepancy? First, a growing number of our [...]

by Bill Tierney I’m back in China for a week or so.  I’m currently at a conference in Hangzhou to give a talk on graduate education.  Hangzhou is about a two hour train ride from Shanghai and is one of China’s prettiest cities – streets lined by canals, a beautiful lake in the center of [...]

by David Dwyer Yesterday, I shared a portrait of the Millennial generation, a group that has high expectations for themselves and for whom we might hold high expectations as well. The issue today is that there is a troubling discrepancy between that “next great generation” image and the Millennial’s track record in education thus far. [...]

by David Dwyer, Ph.D. Research Professor & Katzman-Ernst Chair in Educational Entrepreneurship, Technology, and Innovation Dr. Tierney asked that I do a guest spot for CHEPA’s blog and I jumped at the chance to share some ideas – passions, really – and hopefully hear back from CHEPA’s community. I’ve entitled my blog series: End-User Design, [...]

In 2006 Arthur Levine published Educating School Teachers, a report about the short-falls of teacher education. Since then the number of teacher education programs has increased–largely due to online degrees–but the quality has not. Arne Duncan gave a speech this week at Teachers College and stated, “Yet, by almost any standard, many if not most of [...]

This past week, we had a two day visit from 35 Brazilian administrators and faculty; the Minister of Higher Education and his staff also visited from the Maldives earlier in the week.  The purpose of these visits was to learn more about various aspects of higher education.   The “American model” rightly or wrongly has caught [...]

The LA Times recently printed an article about the use of value-added, a statistical method to assess student growth. Steven Rivkin and Eric Hanushek, both well-known economists, support the new method. A few years ago, Rivkin published a useful and accessible description of value-added and educational policy. Value-added is now one of those trendy concepts that everyone seems [...]