Bloom's Sixth

By Doug Ward Randy Bass sees a struggle taking place in higher education. On one side are those who see the future as “unbundled,” a model in which students pursue discrete skills at their own pace and mostly under their own direction. On the other side are those who see the future as bundled, much as a university is now with classes and programs and a physical environment that draws everything together. Randy Bass during a breakout session at the 2017 Teaching Summit This is not a clash of right vs. wrong or good vs. evil, Bass, a professor and administrator at Georgetown…

That pricey fifth (or sixth) year of college Jon Marcus of the Hechinger Report writes about the overlooked cost of a fifth or sixth year in calculating the cost of a college education. Ninety percent of freshmen begin college thinking they will graduate in four years, though less than half actually do. … Also, in a disturbing trend, Hechinger reports that the number of…