It might be easier to train them to communicate properly with students than to get professional management academics to teach students to be good managers.
"Good students tend to be smart, hardworking and conformist three crucial traits for almost any job, " writes Dr. Caplan.
WSJ: Jonah Lehrer Asks: What's College For? Is It Still Worth It? | Head Case
If doctors are to be asked to repair only hernias all day long, their jobs will become mundane, and good-quality students will be deterred from learning medicine.
Whether it would also be good for students remains to be seen.
The measure of a good education should be to assess how well students did in that school compared to how they would have been predicted to do if they had gone to other schools.
FORBES: Evaluating the Quality of Charter Schools and Tertiary Care Hospitals
As Tammi Benjamin from UC Santa Cruz explained in a letter last December to local Federation CEO Shalom Elcott and local Hillel director Jordan Fruchtman, while OTI claims to be interested in fostering good relations between Jewish and Arab students, it actually just propagandizes against Israel.
And while "coding is the new Latin" may be a good message to send to parents and politicians, something a little sexier will be needed to convince school students that computer science is cool.
In Virginia, fixing the funding formula to level the playing field for all students would be a good start.
The transfer scheme works only in some states and only for students who get good enough grades to be admitted to the brand-name university.
We use the nationally recognized Project Wisdom Character Education program and the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) system to teach students how to make good choices and be rewarded for such choices.
The Fame Academy preferred their students to be all-round performers, not merely good-looking kids capable of excelling at karaoke.
Simply put, it is not terribly good preparation for real life to teach students that they will be protected, by timid and risk-averse administrators, from hearing disturbing speech.
FORBES: Liability Reigns Supreme at the Corporate University
And we have good people everywhere working together to put students first where they need to be.
FORBES: Digital Learning Now Launches with Recommendations for Educational Transformation
While some will worry that this raises the bar too high for providers particularly more innovative start-ups I actually think this will be a good thing for students, as it will further align the incentives for providers to focus on student outcomes.
The nonprofit was founded just over 20 years ago by a small group of MBA students who wanted to make a difference and believed that business could be a force for good, which, at the time, was a novel concept in a business school.
FORBES: Net Impact's Army for Good and the Rise of the Enlightened Merchant
应用推荐