New Orleans Fifty years ago, the Class of 1966 entered Benjamin Franklin High School in New Orleans in the fall of 1963, not unlike tens of thousands of others entering their public high schools in cities and towns all over the United States, all of whom hoped undoubtedly they were special in some personal way, …
Category: Education
University of the People, Web-streaming, and Low Power Radio
New Orleans A little more than a year ago my friend Na Hyowoo asked me to come give a lecture on community organizing to some 25 or so students meeting at a community center in Seoul, Korea who were trying to handcraft a free, alternative university education. The students came from all walks of life, …
Linking High Ed Federal Aid to Performance and Equity is Great Idea!
New Orleans The Obama Administration is in the drafting stages of a proposal to link federal student financial aid to key accountability and affordability standards for higher educational institutions. By 2015, the proposal would rate institutions by measures including tuition costs, graduation rates, debt load and earnings of graduates, and, thankfully, even the percentage of …