Monday, November 21, 2011

Law Schools

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/business/after-law-school-associates-learn-to-be-lawyers.html

"there are few incentives for law professors to excel at teaching. It might earn them the admiration of students, but it won’t win them any professional goodies, like tenure, a higher salary, prestige or competing offers from better schools. For those, a professor must publish law review articles, the ticket to punch for any upwardly mobile scholar."

Monday, November 14, 2011

The Chronicle of Higher Ed

http://chronicle.com/article/What-Spurs-Students-to-Stay-in/129670/


What Spurs Students to Stay in College and Learn? Good Teaching Practices and Diversity.


too often the blame of college student's failures is simply pushed to high school preparation. Higher Ed has plenty of room for improvement.