So Google doesn’t know everything. This writer tries to answer the question: How many college students never finish school? She ends up with a bottle of aspirin. Education Sector’s Anne Hyslop would sympathize. She has argued for the 4 Ts of edu-data (timely, thorough, tailored, and transparent) to save folks these exact headaches. (The Atlantic)
To tweed or not to tweed? A Notre Dame faculty member comments on the “stunted sense of style” in academia. (The answer, by the way, is to tweed.) (Inside Higher Ed)
“Our classrooms are going to be like those you walked by and wondered why they were so loud.” Tennessee teachers take a look at how the Common Core State Standards will change their instruction. (The Commercial Appeal)
Is school really two easy? A South Bend, Ind. news report makes an ironic mistake. (Gawker)