by Carol Barash, PhD, on Jun 26, 2014 6:44:00 PM
The revolution in higher education is here. You can see the new configurations on many fronts: ASU’s collaboration to provide degrees to Starbucks employees; Harvard’s rush (and internal conflict) to …
Read Storyby Carol Barash, PhD, on Jun 24, 2014 11:30:00 AM
A recent article in The Wall Street Journal revealed the power behind teenagers and their immersion in tech: for high school students, technology is not a set of tools to learn …
Read Storyby Carol Barash, PhD, on Jun 19, 2014 11:30:00 AM
Last Wednesday night, I rushed out of the Princeton Club to catch the 8:50 NJ Transit train from Penn Station. I couldn’t find a cab, and the E train was packed and …
Read Storyby Carol Barash, PhD, on Jun 17, 2014 11:00:00 AM
Most often, in the Princeton Review and other lists of “happy” colleges, “happy” is a euphemism for “party.” Late nights of bingeing and other uber-stupid life choices should not be …
Read Storyby Carol Barash, PhD, on Jun 3, 2014 2:49:00 PM
Parents worry. We worry a lot. It’s deep in our DNA; we’re trying to get the best resources to our next generation. And since college is such a marker of …
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