A follow-up note on prescriptive statements in nonintervention research...
A follow-up note on prescriptive statements in nonintervention research studies. Shaw, Shana M.; Walls, Stephen M.; Dacy, Breana Sylvester; Levin, Joel R.; Robinson, Daniel H. Journal of Educational...
View Article8-Year-Olds Publish Scientific Bee Study | Wired Science
via wired.com What a fantastic way to make the scientific process concrete for these children. I dare say that doing this for many adults might significantly benefit the public’s understanding of...
View ArticleDissent Magazine – Got Dough? How Billionaires Rule our Schools – A hacket...
via dissentmagazine.org Barkan certainly has an axe to grind and she grinds it and chops away in this piece detailing her account of educational philanthropists work over the last 10 years. I have been...
View ArticleThe Simpsons – Comments about PhDs and Grad Students. [HQ]
via youtube.com Gotta love it and so true…at least for us social science folks
View ArticleSouth Korea Brings in Foreign Professors by the Thousands—at a Cost
via chronicle.com This is a good, surface-level look at the issue. I like that it’s not just foreign professor’s whining about Korean academia. I too often hear these complaints. Not that there aren’t...
View ArticleOpen Access Does Not Equal More Citations, Study Finds (via @tonnet)
Open Access Does Not Equal More Citations, Study Finds April 1, 2011, 4:12 pm By Ben Wieder A new study suggests that while open access appears to increase the readership of scholarly articles, it...
View ArticleHigher education: The latest bubble? | The Economist
Higher education The latest bubble? Apr 13th 2011, 11:50 by Schumpeter via economist.com The argument made isn’t great, but I agree overall. The coming bubble is going to messily pop. I see a business...
View ArticleFor-profit colleges are issued new rules by Education Department – OR...
The U.S. Department of Education on Thursday issued long-awaited regulations to increase federal oversight of for-profit colleges, despite an intense, year-long lobbying effort by the colleges to...
View ArticleThe IRB and the future of fieldwork – Amen, sister! preach on.
The IRB and the Future of Fieldwork August 12, 2011, 7:40 pm By Laurie Essig Institutional Review Boards exist, according to their websites, to protect research subjects from unethical researchers,...
View ArticleAcademic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist | George Monbiot |...
Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist Academic publishers charge vast fees to access research paid for by us. Down with the knowledge monopoly racketeers George Monbiot Monday 29...
View ArticleWhy Are So Many Students Still Failing Online? [seriously?]
Why Are So Many Students Still Failing Online? Brian Taylor By Rob Jenkins Online learning has become the third rail in American higher-education politics: Step on it and you’re toast. That’s...
View ArticleMaps of Citations Uncover New Fields of Scholarship
Citation by Citation, New Maps Chart Hot Research and Scholarship’s Hidden Terrain Stephen Brashear for The Chronicle Front left to right, Carl Bergstrom, Martin Rosvall, Daril Vilhena, and Jevin...
View ArticlePrinceton bans academics from handing all copyright to journal publishers
via theconversation.edu.au This is good news. The dominoes are beginning to fall. Pay journals are a dying breed. Yeah! For non-academics or for those academics at huge universities with large library...
View ArticleTo: Professors; Re: Your Advisees – Advice
To: Professors; Re: Your Advisees Mark Shaver for The Chronicle By Karen Kelsky Dear faculty members: I sell Ph.D. advising services on the open market. And your Ph.D. students are buying. Why?...
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