Arthur Levine is a scholar of higher education at New York University’s Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy, a senior fellow and president emeritus of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and president emeritus of Columbia University’s Teachers College.
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Colleges will lose power, prices will go down, and credentials will multiply — among other jarring shifts.
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The acquisition of a for-profit-college chain by a storied land-grant university points to the future of American higher education.
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Competency-based education, which focuses on results rather than process, is a model that colleges are going to have to adopt to survive.
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If new standards are properly enforced, then the programs will be judged by the actual impact of their graduates in the classroom.
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University leaders, heirs to the innovative disrupters of an earlier era, are now seen as apologists for a dated system of higher education.
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They’re not that different from undergraduates of the past, but they face a changed world.
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It’s time to marry university programs with the modern versions of the old normal school, which emphasize practice over theory.
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For every child who finds a path to college, there are many others who don’t. The cost of losing them is incalculable.
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Education is not a competitive choice for the nation’s most able young peopleSeveral years ago, I was part of a group that a philanthropist had assembled to review his foundation’s education agenda. In the course of a two-day meeting, the conversation turned negative only once, when education…
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Colloquy: Read the transcript of a live, online discussion with Arthur Levine, president of Columbia University’s Teachers College, about his proposed reforms in training programs for leaders of elementary and secondary schools.Article: The Ed.D. -- Who Needs It? I can’t even begin to count how…