Bloom's Sixth

In a review essay for the Washington Post, Janet Napolitano takes on the idea that higher education is in crisis. She brushes aside criticisms from Ryan Craig (College Disrupted) and Kevin Carey (The End of College) and says that instead of falling apart, colleges and universities are going through “an intense period of evolution driven by advances in technology and better understanding of cognitive learning.” Higher education, she…

Council gives generally poor grades for core university requirements In a scathing report on core liberal arts requirements, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni gives more than 60 percent of colleges and universities a grade of C or lower. “By and large, higher education has abandoned a coherent content-rich general education curriculum,” the council says in its report, “What Will They Learn?” The organization generally favors tradition over innovation in course offerings, and…

Angelique Kobler offered an uncomfortable question about education last week. Kobler, assistant superintendent for teaching and learning at the Lawrence school district, met with the KU Task Force on Course Redesign and explained the steady expansion of blended learning in Lawrence public schools. To illustrate the need for new ways of engaging…