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Friday, October 11, 2013
Porter on Skills Gap
ECONOMIC SCENE
Stubborn Skills Gap in America’s Work Force
By EDUARDO PORTER
Published: October 8, 2013
One of the few things that nearly everyone in Washington agrees on is that American workers are the best.
More productive than any on earth,” President Obama has said of them. They “build better products than anybody else.
Republicans, somewhat less exuberant, are nonetheless sure that American workers “can surpass the competition” on any level playing field. Even the United States Chamber of Commerce — not always a worker’s best friend — asserts that, along with the nation’s entrepreneurs and companies, America’s workers “are the best in the world.”
Friedman on MOOCs (2013)
OP-ED COLUMNIST
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: March 5, 2013
I just spent the last two days at a great conference convened by M.I.T. and Harvard on “Online Learning and the Future of Residential Education” — a k a “How can colleges charge $50,000 a year if my kid can learn it all free from massive open online courses?”
The Professors’ Big Stage
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMANPublished: March 5, 2013
I just spent the last two days at a great conference convened by M.I.T. and Harvard on “Online Learning and the Future of Residential Education” — a k a “How can colleges charge $50,000 a year if my kid can learn it all free from massive open online courses?”
You may think this MOOCs revolution is hyped, but my driver in Boston disagrees. You see, I was picked up at Logan Airport by my old friend Michael Sandel, who teaches the famous Socratic, 1,000-student “Justice” course at Harvard, which is launching March 12 as the first humanities offering on the M.I.T.-Harvard edX online learning platform. When he met me at the airport I saw he was wearing some very colorful sneakers.
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