This post is an essay by Sara Weissman that appeared recently in Inside Higher Ed. Here's a link to the original. The title tells the story: More than Half of 4-Year College Grads Are Underemployed. That means they are in jobs that don't require a college degree. More than half of recent four-year college graduates, 52 percent, … Continue reading Sara Weissman — More than Half of 4-Year College Grads Are Underemployed
Today I'm posting a wonderful essay by Daniel Markovits about the social consequences of the new meritocracy, which he published in Hedgehog Review. Here's a link to the original. As you may recall, last fall I posted a piece about his book, The Meritocracy Trap. In this essay, Markovits extends his analysis of the role … Continue reading Daniel Markovits: Schooling in the Age of Human Capital
This post is a piece by Ethan Hutt (an education professor at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), which was originally published in Bildungsgeschichte: International Journal for the Historiography of Education. Here's a link to the PDF. In this essay, he explores the way in which the Covid experience has revealed an ailment that has long … Continue reading Ethan Hutt — The Sickness in Our Schools
This post draws on a discussion I participated in that was published in Comparative Education Review in 2009. It brought together a variety of scholars to comment on a new film about schooling produced by Bob Compton called Two Million Minutes. The film draws its title from the number of minutes that students around the … Continue reading Schools Should Focus on Producing More Hustlers than Scholars
David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing 