One year ago I wrote a post critical of Inside Higher Ed for not doing a blanket disclosure about the sale of a majority stake to a private equity firm with other education holdings (most notably Ruffalo Noel Levitz). Subsequent to the disclosure from the Huffington Post, IHE put up an ownership statement disclosing the ownership change […]
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About Inside Higher Ed Selling Majority Stake
Update 1/21: See link and blurb at bottom of post from new Editor’s Note at Inside Higher Ed. Last week the Huffington Post ran an article by David Halperin breaking the news that the private equity firm Quad Partners had acquired a controlling interest in Inside Higher Ed. Quad Partners, a New York private equity […]
Federal Reserve Board backs up e-Literate in criticism of Brookings report on student debt
I have been very critical of the Brookings Institution report on student debt, particularly in my post “To see how illogical the Brookings Institution report on student loans is, just read the executive summary”. D’oh! It turns out that real borrowers with real tax brackets paying off off real loans are having real problems. The […]
You know what would help MOOC articles? Getting the facts and goals right before analyzing
Keith Devlin has an article at Huffington Post today titled “MOOC Mania Meets the Sober Reality of Education”. The premise is that the halting of the San Jose State University (SJSU) / Udacity pilot project and of SB 520 show that naive assumptions on the power of MOOCs to disrupt higher education are insufficient in […]
Great Title, Flawed Post – Khan Academy Enables Out-of-the-Box Approaches
There was a very interesting article at Huffington Post today that I suspect is rapidly making the rounds through the blogosphere. Given the author and title of the post, “What Silicon Valley Executives Keep Getting Wrong About Education” by Dr. Keith Devlin of Stanford, I had high hopes for an insightful explanation of mistakes by […]