I am very curious to see how higher ed changes. It's obvious nobody is paying regular tuition for online classes.
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May 2020
Oct 2019
Mar 2019
Well, at least until prices become sane.
Ryan Hoover@rrhoover
I can’t imagine my future son/daughter going to a traditional university
Feb 2019
Really amazing thread about things @AustenAllred has learned starting @LambdaSchool. Absolutely worth a read for anyone interested in education. threadreaderapp.com
Jan 2018
51.8% of the US government financial assets are student loans—some interesting commentary on HN news.ycombinator.com
Jan 2017
Going directly to college out of high school is a bad idea. If I were to do it again, I'd do a gap year. buff.ly
Nov 2016
...all forms of media are collapsing in price, other than textbooks. theverge.com
My conversation with @hellorubyworld author @lindaliukas on teaching children about technology. buff.ly
“I don’t see how you can have a therapeutic space that’s also an intellectual space.” buff.ly
Oct 2016
The full-time MBA is under pressure from specialist degrees and online education buff.ly
Apr 2016
If a university wanted to help students with startups evidence shows the best thing they can do is literally nothing paulgraham.com
What a great project for a kid—9-year-old reporter breaks crime news, posts videos, fires back at critics washingtonpost.com
Mar 2016
“Emory’s student government, meanwhile, has offered emergency counseling for traumatized students.” buff.ly
Seriously? An Emory student who wrote 'Trump 2016' on a sidewalk, IN CHALK, is being hunted down for vandalism. reason.com
Let’s ban elementary homework salon.com
Feb 2016
The problem is college freshman hardly have any idea what people with a specific degree do. one.npr.org
Jan 2016
About 60% of software engineers don't have a CS degree techcrunch.com
Dec 2015
The $10,000-a-year college education has arrived (1981) buff.ly
Oct 2015
May 2015
Elon Musk created a grade school for Space X employees. Jump to the 25 min mark in the video. theverge.com
Why is the education of a sushi chef so long? buff.ly
Apr 2015
"As professors are transformed into managers, so students are converted into consumers." buff.ly
This French tech school has no teachers, no books, no tuition buff.ly
“The US educational system treats children like criminals, that need to be controlled, seen and not heard...” buff.ly
An online course in city design, interesting. stepik.org
Are master’s degrees on their way out? Alternatives grow as enrollment fades washingtonpost.com
Who among you thinks that Lynda's product will improve once LinkedIn takes over?
"Don’t outsource your future to a big institution. You need to figure it out for yourself." washingtonpost.com
Mar 2015
Rich kids use the Internet to get ahead, and poor kids use it ‘mindlessly’ buff.ly
US students are fleeing law schools and pouring into engineering buff.ly
Speaking with a class today about internet marketing. Think I'm going to tell the story about how I used Facebook Ads to get my first job.
"My lack of a formal education is a terrific advantage,” said the Norwegian billionaire. fortune.com
Student loan debt increasing at $3,000 per second. collegedebt.com
Feb 2015
Will startups be more accepting? We'll see—M.B.A. Programs Start to Follow Silicon Valley Into the Data Age buff.ly
Jan 2015
Dec 2014
Law school applications collapse: Get ready for schools to start closing. slate.com
Nov 2014
Nothing forces us to funnel students into a tournament that bankrupts the losers and turns winners into conformists. washingtonpost.com
Oct 2014
Incase you missed it, I posted a fantastic interview with @lindaliukas this week. signaltower.co
Interesting HN comment—I've heard Harvard described as a hedge fund that has figured out a great way to avoid taxes. news.ycombinator.com
I talk with @railsgirls founder @lindaliukas about inspiring a generation of programmers.
signaltower.co
Is some college worse than none at all? buff.ly
Sep 2014
It's interesting that some of the most successful people I know found their way in spite of school, not because of it.
The bottom quarter of earners with a college degree don't make more money than the average high school graduate. fortune.com
Aug 2014
On getting a master's in Janitorial Studies solomon.io
Unschooling: a case for setting your kids into the wild outsideonline.com
It would be interesting if Law School wasn't a requirement—How to Learn the Law Without Law School buff.ly
South Korea's high test scores come at the determent, happiness of its children. buff.ly
Re: Said comment about the value of higher education buff.ly
Jul 2014
If something can be gamed it will be gamed. School is no different—To Stop Cheating, Nuclear Officers Ditch Grades. npr.org
Students don't need more education, they need more experiences—The Experience Deficiency. solomon.io
So this is cool—@AdamWhitcroft, one of my favorite icon designers is hosting a class on Skillshare. skillshare.com
What would a school shaped from scratch look like? A Peruvian businessmen charges Ideo with the task. buff.ly
Many MOOCs are failing because they repackage lectures as videos. They've taken the part of school that sucks and put it on the internet.
Jun 2014
A sign of specialty schools eating away at the edges of traditional universities—Kaplan to buy Dev Bootcamp buff.ly
Universities can’t fulfil the myth, but they can’t become a vocational school either arstechnica.com
May 2014
Bring back Reading Rainbow project on Kickstarter. It's amazing to watch how fast the donations are going up. buff.ly
Ivy grads aren't going to Wall St because they love risk and money. It's because they hate risk and are terrified vox.com
Software is the new literacy.
Now the lecture course, which was always the worst aspect of college education, is being made available to millions" educationoutrage.blogspot.com
Apr 2014
My friend @henrybayuzick asks "What is a Computer Science degree worth?" Good discussion on DN. news.layervault.com
Higher Education: Too many degrees are a waste of money. bit.ly
Mar 2014
Prescription drugs are a symptom of a broken system--The Drugging Of The American Boy esquire.com
Cutting art programs is dangerous. Artists and entrepreneurs are the last jobs machines will take. salon.com
NPR Engineer, Jeremy Bowers, explains how the internet works in five minutes. youtube.com
We called these Residential Learning Centers at SigEp.
The future of college probably looks closer to a fraternity than modern college—small groups living, studying and working together.
I've seen many anti-greek articles lately. I wonder if these authors have considered that college as we know it might not exist in a decade.
Correlation found between standardized testing an ADHD. salon.com
Feb 2014
I love it when @pmarca goes on rants about education.
You're told not to copy in school, but the real way to learn is through theft and iteration. Great article by @pjrvs usefathom.com
An education system born in the enlightenment, and modeled after industry, is not relevant in the internet age. buff.ly
Is it wrong to teach children about God? aeon.co
"Why does our system kill future heroes, while the US helps raise even ordinary Indians to iconic levels?" firstpost.com
Is law school worth the money? businessinsider.com
Jan 2014
The government does not need a monopoly on learning—California regulator seeks to shut down 'learn to code' bootcamps buff.ly
Our schools are better than China’s because ours don’t work as well as theirs.
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You know what? If this kid gets kicked out of Yale, I don't think he'll have any issues finding a job. haufler.org
This graph of student loan debt v median income /w a bachelors degree shows exactly what is wrong with higher ed.
washingtonpost.com
Dec 2013
Miss school, like money? Job Listing: '$40K a Year to Attend Harvard University as Me' buff.ly
That is especially the case if you are pushing sheisty college loans.
If everything increased in price at the same rate as college tuition, there would be national riots. -Mike Rowe mikeroweworks.org
The vast majority of available jobs no longer require a diploma—they require the willingness to learn a useful skill.
Textbooks are such a racket. Force students to pay hundreds of dollars for dumbed-down material that is rephrased and sold as new each year.
China’s Schools Teaches Kids to Take Tests, Obey the State, and Not Much More —Just like another world power. thedailybeast.com
Nov 2013
This course looks awesome. Wish I took a class like this—Entrepreneurial Design Syllabus docs.google.com
All I see here is that two thirds of billion dollar startups didnt have one MBA on their team. buff.ly
"If everything I learn in highschool is a measureable objective, I have not learned anything." youtube.com
I love it! Teaching fractions with Legos. i.imgur.com
If I applied to a top MBA school and declined it if I was accepted, would that still provide a value signal without incurring the cost?
Oct 2013
Sep 2013
Don't get a PhD — The PhD-Industry Gap buff.ly
OK Ron Paul, let's see what you think about education.
Congratulations to my fellow classmates @brianmartinek and @zzpreneur for making the @starterleague alumni board.
Be wary of principals that want to be wardens—School District Announces 24/7 Monitoring of Students' Social Media techdirt.com
Learning only happens when people are truly interested. This is why most teachers teach, but great teachers inspire.
If you found that article on schooling interesting I would encourage you to read a copy of John Taylor Gatto's Weapons of Mass Instruction.
School is a prison and damaging our kids-some fantastic observations about schooling. salon.com
Aug 2013
Soon getting a masters degree will be a requirement—before you know it people will be 28-years-old before they enter the workforce.
You get to solutions like "College should be free" by asking the wrong questions about education. buff.ly
Long-form of the week — The Kids Can't Use Computers coding2learn.org
Broken—The problem lies with the perceived importance of college education. buff.ly
What would happen if we asked all graduating high school students to attempt a business instead of going to college?
Except there is a trillion dollars in student debt with a good portion of that backed by the government.
Before 2007 nobody believed the value of their house would ever fall. The same thing is happening to college today.
Taking out a loan for college is no different than doing one for a business - It is a gamble either way.
Jul 2013
Traditional education has kept us tethered to our comparatively small potential, minor accomplishments futuristspeaker.com
By 2030 over 50% of Colleges will Collapse futuristspeaker.com
Jun 2013
Bitmaker Labs: A lesson in what’s wrong with Canadian tech education ca.finance.yahoo.com
When test scores become a game and real learning is negated in the process—Chinese students fight for right to cheat smh.com.au
The problem with metric-driven systems is that people game metrics, which leads to a different outcome. Need an example? Test scores.
This is what it looks like to learn a language in a year. vimeo.com
Adding more college graduates does not stimulate economic growth - Dim Job Prospects for Chinese Grads buff.ly
Half of the nation's workers in science, technology, engineering, and math don't have or need a bachelor's degree. buff.ly
"We spend so many years locked away in classrooms that the rest of the world seems foreign."
The disconnect between college and employment isn't just for tech — Wall Street looks to Boot Camps to train workers. archive.nytimes.com
Require universities to disclose the earnings of alumni and the nature of their employment to prospective students. npr.org
Incubators are not competing with venture capitalists, they are competing with traditional business schools.
May 2013
Why Chinese education produces decent bureaucrats and number crunchers, but very few inventors and entrepreneurs. psychologytoday.com
Thinking about building creating an education company? Take a look at this deck by @aronsolomon slideshare.net
The three most dire reforms needed in the US — Education, Incarceration, and Taxation
Why I Let My Students Cheat On Their Game Theory Exam buff.ly
Only 0.45% students owe more than $200,000 in loans, but with 11.3 million students that means there are 50,000 students in serious trouble.
Job prospects for those with a JD and an MBA. is.gd
Apr 2013
11% of school children now diagnosed with ADHD. Perhaps the kids are alright, and school is the problem? nyti.ms
Mar 2013
It is absurd to focus on test taking as a skill. Such focus is put on gaming test scores that it completely negates learning in the process.
The apprentice programmer and a tale of alternative education by @Shopify founder @tobi tobi.lutke.com
Jan 2013
Notes on the Center for College Affordability's new report - Why College Graduates are Underemployed signaltower.co
Pricing power of colleges reaches inflection point as demand for four-year colleges soften. on.wsj.com
The era of polymaths is not over, many people have just been taught otherwise.
Dec 2012
Education is about inspiring a mind, not just filling a head.
"People will not continue to pay tens of thousands of dollars for what technology allows them to get for free." the-american-interest.com
Nov 2012
Great discussion on education happening on Hacker News right now. news.ycombinator.com
Thoughts on The Starter League from one of my classmates @jasonfried 37signals.com
Why I chose to take a rails class at The Starter League. builtinchicago.org via @BuiltInChicago
Oct 2012
It is as difficult to get a 0 on the SAT as a perfect score. Interesting concept. colinfahey.com
Why are you forcing my son to take chemistry? washingtonpost.com
Thoughts on my first week at the @starterleague samuelrsolomon.com
Sep 2012
Isaac Asimov on the future of education in 1988. youtu.be
Aug 2012
New Post: The Democratization of Knowledge and the Fall of College samuelrsolomon.com
May 2012
Can't wait for 60 minutes this week. Peter Thiel vs @wadhwa
Apr 2012
While schooling may be a problem in this country, it may be a solution in others.
Federal education spending has increased three fold since 1970, while dropout rates and academic performance have changed insignificantly.
Should colleges be held accountable? bigthink.com
@C_Fif @wardamnfrank @JTaylor295 Teachers, doctors and lawyers can thrive in school, but it destroys many entrepreneurs.
@C_Fif @wardamnfrank Following that - in 3 years there is going to be an exponentially high amount of unemployed law school students.
Perhaps the greatest failure of our schooling system is that many brilliant people simply don't think they are brilliant.
Mar 2012
The next bubble? Higher Education. Student-Loan Debt Reaches Record $1 trillion. bloom.bg
Had a great time speaking about starting a business while in college last night. I appreciate everyone's interest.
Curious to hear about the @wadhwa v. @DaleJStephens TED debate.
Jan 2012
Opting out of Grading - world-shaker: tmblr.co
"I used to think that technology could help education. I’ve probably spearheaded giving away more..." tmblr.co
Can Technology Transform Education Before It’s Too Late? techcrunch.com via @techcrunch
Education is failing the future-makers wired.co.uk
Nov 2011
Video: › Where’s the “Learn This” Button? › › Learning needs to be more personalized. We all know this. But... tmblr.co
"A college degree is no longer the guarantor of a middle-class existence." nyti.ms
Which Stanford courses should I sign up for next semester? nc.me
The global marketplace is not looking for people who have learned how to be great students. It wants results.
The Shadow Scholar - I’ve written toward a master’s degree in cognitive psychology, a Ph.D. in sociology,... tmblr.co
Remember when teachers said you had to learn cursive because that is how adults write?
Could apprenticeships replace college degrees? Perhaps. good.is
Video: The age-old tradition of gaming teaches us strategy, maneuvering, and the importance of making... tmblr.co
"The real problem lies in the effects standardized education has had on a student’s internal and..." tmblr.co
@ap_sims I want to start testing, but I have a ton of school stuff to get done. Class getting in the way of my education - and revenues.
My list of must follow #education reformers on Twitter. samuelrsolomon.com
Why isn't there a class about running PPC Facebook and Adword campaigns in college?
I have to create an infographic for class. Any topic ideas?
Oct 2011
Cool program for those interesting in learning how to code.
codecademy.com via @Codecademy
Freakonomics: Cost of College on the Rise (Again) - In-state tuition at public 4-year colleges up 8.3% from... tmblr.co
20 Popular High School Books Available as Free eBooks & Audio Books - world-shaker: tumblr.com
@GOOD Should high school grads take a gap year? I think it is a brilliant idea. good.is
Education, entrepreneurial enlightenment, sustainability. Top 10 innovation trends by 100 innovators. slidesha.re
@ErichSparks Thanks for the follow. Great work with the UnCollege social media.
The keys to the next golden age lie somewhere between #education and #entrepreneurship.
Brilliant debate Do Too Many Kids Go to College? vimeo.com #educationreform #college
There is only one student-led class per week the rest of the time is spent researching working interning and creating. uncollege.org
Do easy answers remove the need to ask questions? wesjones.com #EducationReform
Our schools are...factories in which the raw products are to be shaped and fashioned...And to build its pupils to their specifications.
Ditching and Oxford master's in search of a better #education guardian.co.uk
Are too many kids going to #college? washingtonpost.com
Interesting thread of a teenager who helps #unschool on reddit. reddit.com
The biggest problem with #education? The average person doesnt think of education as a problem at all. uncollege.org
#UnschoolingRules Learn something because you need it or because you love it. Human Resource Management fits into neither category.
Textbooks are the fast food of educational literature. A conglomeration of information whose source is questionable.
Pre order The Elephant on Campus Documentary for $10. indiegogo.com #education #college #HigherEdReform
Are straight A's a waste of time? The regrets of an A student in #college blog.penelopetrunk.com
Sep 2011
How to spot education inflation? There are 5,057 janitors in the U.S. with Ph.D.’s, or professional degrees.chronicle.com
@DaleJStephens If business is better learned from those who have started businesses could the future of a business education be incubators?
@DaleJStephens Thanks for taking my question. Great discussion about education. @MichaelEllsberg ill definitely look for your book.
@DaleJStephens @MichaelEllsberg How does changing the paradigm in education relate to the economy?
I find it interesting that my best ideas come when I am supposed to be doing school work or studying.
Jul 2011
rt @DanielPink Standardized tests should be used for diagnosis and assessment - not for rewards and punishments. @Clarkaldrich
Jun 2011
In class your required to put you phone away. Here your required to use it. #smssummit @60secondtweets
Everybody should be required to develop a #BusinessPlan at some point during #college #education regardless of major.
May 2011
What is the best way to prepare for your dream job? Start doing it now. me.lt #unschoolingrules
@clarkaldrich I should be studying for an organizational behavior final, but I find Unschooling Rules far more compelling.
“I sell a product to a market that does not want it, but is forced by law to buy it. I teach high school math.” - Dan Meyer
Apr 2011
Mar 2011
If the american economy is based on small business, why is there not more emphasis on #entreprenuership in secondary education?
Why is the single common denominator for the rate at which we are taught the year we are born? Knowledge growth is organic not manufactured.
Video: Classroom time should be used for student - teacher interactions instead of lectures. The government... tumblr.com
Dec 2010
What classroom design should look like. bit.ly
Nov 2010
Education inflation, a new look at school - A growing number of college students are approaching the end of... tumblr.com