21st Century Scholar

  State Fall 2005 Fall 2006 Fall 2007 Fall 2008 Fall 2009 Fall 2010 California 5.43% 6.46% 6.20% 6.81% 8.20% 8.67% Texas 3.89% 2.16% 1.94% 1.90% 2.08% 2.41% New York 3.97% 1.63% 1.74% 1.73% 1.78% 1.92% Florida 9.52% 4.60% 5.14% 5.16% 6.05% 7.58% Arizona 41.18% 60.32% 67.01% 63.70% 73.06% 74.25% These are some interesting numbers. [...]

State Fall 2005 Fall 2006 Fall 2007 Fall 2008 Fall 2009 Fall 2010 California 26.32% 19.84% 18.85% 20.72% 24.79% 24.99% Texas 15.28% 9.85% 9.29% 9.48% 10.92% 12.98% New York 7.83% 2.81% 3.02% 3.05% 3.15% 3.33% Florida 27.28% 12.75% 14.31% 14.09% 16.31% 19.85% Arizona 89.45% 97.56% 98.06% 98.10% 98.74% 98.89% So, it looks like private for-profit [...]

Graduation is around the corner and you know what that means—pull out the academic regalia and prepare for some pretty boring events. At USC we have three ceremonies: on Thursday morning there is a hooding for all Ph.D. candidates in the university auditorium; on Thursday afternoon the Rossier school has a ceremony where the Ed.D. [...]

I thought it might be useful to highlight some of the issues the AERA Council is tackling over the next year. I was fortunate to have Arnetha Ball precede me as president who encouraged me to plan ahead. We have three task forces already up and running. One of them, chaired by Dorothy Espalage and [...]

A young man arrived in the United States and moved with his family to one of the poorest sections of Los Angeles. The violence and poverty that surrounded him was a surprise. In his application for a scholarship to Stanford University he wrote, “I thought America was a land of riches and pleasures because of [...]

Vancouver has come and gone, and I am now home to catch my breath for a moment before the school year comes to a close. While the conference is still fresh in our minds I’d like to offer a request and invitation: Send us ten sentences. Write five sentences about what you liked at the [...]

There is a great deal of discussion right now about how our children may not be better off than we are. The drumbeat is that throughout the 20th century the next generation has always been richer than the previous one. Today, however, we know that an increasing number of college-age students graduate and move back [...]

There is a great deal of worry right now that our children will not have a better life than we have had. The narrative goes that American progress has been a continuum where the children will have it better than the parents, just as the parents had it better than the grandparents. In many respects [...]

In an age of rampant capitalism we have the capacity to direct every dollar in a particular direction that the capitalist state desires. In my last blog I wrote about the ability of the state to change its financial aid system so that public universities can get more state aid while the private institutions get [...]

Let’s assume we’re friends and you’re hungry and out of money. You come to me and say, “I need some money for lunch.” I look in my wallet, pull out a 10, and say, “Keep the change.”  You come back in an hour and sheepishly say, “I need another five bucks.” I shake my head [...]