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Job success is multi-dimensional

Posted on January 6, 2019 by Praj / 0 Comment

Bryan Caplan’s The Case Against Education argues that employers value college degrees not because college imparts skills and knowledge, but beca...

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We need more shuffling to vocational schools

Posted on December 22, 2018 by Praj / 0 Comment

I often learn that that ideas I thought were original actually aren’t–someone else got there years or even decades earlier. In 2015 Andy Rotherham c...

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The reverse co-op and the education MVP

Posted on December 11, 2018 by Praj / 0 Comment

Many colleges have a co-op program for business and engineering majors. It allows students to get much more work experience than they typically would. Starting ...

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Reforming college vs. vocational pathways

Posted on December 4, 2018 by Praj / 0 Comment

In an over-qualified labor market, employers will fill the “highest” jobs with those who have the “highest” credentials. Since over-scho...

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All EEs don’t need to learn Laplace Transforms

Posted on November 8, 2018 by Praj / 0 Comment

Electrical engineers at Penn State have to take EE350, a course on Laplace transforms. It’s notoriously difficult–abstract and math intensive with t...

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Academia was built by and for academics

Posted on October 28, 2018 by Praj / 0 Comment

A genuine commitment to [an] inclusive society requires a willingness to shape institutions to that end, even when doing so is for the benefit of others or when...

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College is for jobs

Posted on October 24, 2018 by Praj / 0 Comment

Before I get into more details of the working track, I want to lay out my core premise when it comes to college education: college is for jobs, and work is bett...

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The working track

Posted on October 23, 2018 by Praj / 0 Comment

Oren Cass has a couple essays out that previews arguments he’ll expand on in an upcoming book. He discusses many of the themes I’ve touched on: the ...

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Drawing lines and accommodations in public schools

Posted on January 13, 2016 by Praj / 0 Comment

Happy new year folks. I wanted to follow up on my grand bargain post, where I suggest creationist students be allowed to substitute another topic for evolution....

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On teaching biology

Posted on December 30, 2015 by Praj / 4 Comments

The comments on my last post are forcing me to revisit and expand on topics I’ve neglected for a while. Let me start with this challenge from David Brugge...

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