The Carnival of Education is up this week, hosted by Creating Lifelong Learners. Check out all the hullaballo over here.
Here are two of my favorite posts:
Cash for Studying by Joanne Jacobs examines a study to see if paying low-income students for good test scores works. Jacobs cites an editorial in the Christian Science Monitor based on research that students from low-income families who are paid to study are more likely to achieve academic goals. It’s sorta sad that this scheme works; but if we’re serious about raising student achievement across the board, we have to be creative.
Behind the Scenes of Rate My Professor.com is Michael Arnzen’s interesting examination of the web site phenom. I share Arnzen’s criticisms of the site, but there is no denying that prospective students can get a bunch of information about a college’s professoriate by visiting the site. One should take the rankings with a grain of salt (just as we take the US News rankings with a grain of salt).
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Mark is the Founder and CEO of Great College Advice, a national college admissions consulting firm. As a career educator, he has served as a college administrator, professor of international relations at the University of Denver and the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, program consultant at Yale and the University of Kansas, government instructor at Harvard and Tufts, high school teacher of French, and a Fulbright teacher of English in France. He has personally helped hundreds of students from around the world map their college journeys. Mark speaks on college preparation, selection, and admission to students and parents around the world, and his views have been published in major newspapers and journals.
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Mark is the Founder and CEO of Great College Advice, a national college admissions consulting firm. As a career educator, he has served as a college administrator, professor of international relations at the University of Denver and the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, program consultant at Yale and the University of Kansas, government instructor at Harvard and Tufts, high school teacher of French, and a Fulbright teacher of English in France. He has personally helped hundreds of students from around the world map their college journeys. Mark speaks on college preparation, selection, and admission to students and parents around the world, and his views have been published in major newspapers and journals.