Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Must Reads

The NY Times Room for Debate forum features education experts discussing the future of online education.

Kevin Carey outlines his ideal Race to the Top for hijavascript:void(0)gher education.

It seems the US is not the only place where college grads are struggling to find jobs...China is a hotbed for unemployment among its college grads.
Yasheng Huang:
The Chinese educational system is terrible at producing workers with innovative skills for Chinese economy. It produces people who memorize existing facts rather than discovering new facts; who fish for existing solutions rather than coming up with new ones; who execute orders rather than inventing new ways of doing things. In other words they do not solve problems for their employers.

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