Posted by Tom on March 28th, 2008
Two excellent articles dealing with public education on a national level (hat tip to Mark Peterson for sleuthing them out):
“Texas’ 10% admission could teach colleges a thing or two,” USA Today. An interesting article about increasing the diversity in public universities without giving racial preference scores. The article doesn’t address it, but the suggestion also has the potential to increase economic diversity (just as important, in my mind), without the hassle and overhead of evaluating family income. Would something like this work for Utah?
“Lawless Policymaking,” The Quick and the Ed. The U.S. Dept of Education is going out on a limb, and away from the (universally despised) black letter requirements of NCLB. The changes are generally accepted as positive, but a) is it legal, and b) will states that don’t get to participate in (common sense) programs make a stink and spoil the party?
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One of the issues that I am being exposed to (accidentally) at George Mason University is the duty imposed on a state college to be a college for that state’s residents.
GMU is caught between trying to attract people from outside the state (and country) to improve its rankings and prestige and enrolling students who want to attend a Washington DC-area in-state university.
Matters get more complicated when the school is, at the same time, trying to throw off its image as a commuter school, while units try to expand post-graduate executive (read “commuter”) education.
Left by Joe Scoresby on March 31st, 2008