INDEX

academic freedom, 28

academics. See professors

Accelerated Study in Associates Programs (ASAP), 64, 66–69, 71

Accessible Icon Project, 160–161

accreditation system, 213

ACT scores, refusal of, 214, 215

active learning

in community college, 58

description and efficacy, 87, 88

examples, 82–86, 95–96

incorporation into classes, 42

tips for professors and teachers, 263–267

adjunct professors, 11, 12, 63, 119, 121, 167, 177, 199, 249

admissions

out-of-state and in-state admissions, 169–170

and selectivity, 39–40

without rankings, 214–217

advancement at work, skills for, 140–141

advisers and advice, 185–186, 258

Africa, redesign of education, 241–245

African Americans, 26, 126–128, 174, 237–239

Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary, 34

age of majority, 1–2

Agile Learning blog, 84

agile software development, 84

aging and senior citizens, 221–222

agriculture, 21–23, 25–26

AlterPodium, 158

Alyssa (student), 253, 254

American Association of University Professors (AAUP), 246–247

Anderson School of Management, 182–183

Angell, James, 31

“The Anthropology of Aging: Digital Anthropology” class, 217, 218, 219, 221

Apple company, 128

Arizona state, funding cuts, 149

Arizona State University (ASU), 141–142, 147–152, 231

artists, and STEM, 143

Ashesi University (Ghana), 241–245

assistive technology, 157

The Atlantic Monthly, 7

Australia, student debt, 188

automation of employment, 139, 231

Awuah, Patrick, 241–245

bankruptcy, 172

Barrett, Craig, 140

Bass, Randall (Randy), 228–229, 232, 233, 235

Bass Connections program, 154–155

“bean machine” of Galton, 202

Belknap, Joshua, 57, 58

bell curve, for success and failure, 56, 201–203

Bennett, William, 173

Binet, Alfred, 205

Binet-Simon test, 205

blackboards, as technology, 88

#BlackTwitter, 126

Bloom, Benjamin S., 81

Bloomberg, Michael, 65

Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), 57–58

“The Bossy Moms” project, 61–62

Brown, Jerry, 121

Brown, John Seely, 235

Bruff, Derek, 80–87

Buckminster Fuller, R., 249

Burnett, Bill, 234

Butler, Judith, 158–159

Butler, Ruth, 195, 209

Cachia, Amanda, 158, 159

calculators, as technology, 75, 79–80

California, 121–122, 173, 190–191

Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, 213

chalkboards, as technology, 88

change, for redesign of education, 230–231

Chatelain, Marcia, 126

Cho, Dr., 163, 164, 165

choice by students, 34, 253

Chronicle of Higher Education, 106, 119

Chuck (student), 222–223

City University of New York (CUNY)

funding and cutbacks, 176

Graduate Center, 97

initiatives and ASAP at, 64–69, 71

reasons for going to, 250–252

selectivity and credentials at, 52

social mobility at, 69, 179, 190

tuition costs, 190

Claire (student), 252, 254

clickers, 82, 83–84

climate change, 146

Coates, Ta-Nehisi, 6

cocreation with clients, 157–158, 159

cohort learning, 129–130

collaboration

between disciplines, 144

in learning, 82–83, 84, 90

for redesign of education, 231–232, 249

video and video game projects, 219, 220, 223–224

See also synthesis

collaborative projects, tips for professors and teachers, 266

collection agencies, for student debt, 172

college and university

administrative staff, 177–178

vs. community college, 48–49, 50–51, 72

cost of (see cost of college)

development in nineteenth century, 24–26

entrance pathway to, 63

future of, 136–137

gatekeeping structure, 56

goal of, 15

government policy and spending on, 172–176, 178, 187–189

institution at center, 78

as investment in future, 188–189, 191–192

and personal transformation, 2–3

pyramid structure, 199, 243

rankings and selectivity in, 38–40, 49–50, 56–57, 213–214

reason for going to, 250–252

redesign (see redesign of education)

salaries in, 63, 167, 178

tips for students, 257–261

and wealthy students, 179, 180–181

world history, 117–118

College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB), creation of, 39–40

“College Scorecard,” 136–137

community college

admission to, 48, 51, 56

vs. college and university, 48–49, 50–51, 72

as cost-cutting option to college, 186

demographics and income in, 55

and employment prospects, 69–71

financial aspects, 62–63

graduation and success rates, 64, 65–66, 68, 71–72

history and expansion of, 53–54

initiatives in, 64–69, 71

integration in education system, 71–72

mission of and diversity in, 48–49, 50–52, 54–55, 56, 60–61, 72

as model of education, 48–49, 52–53, 67–69, 72–73, 249

as pathway to college, 63

and redesign of education, 72–73, 249

student-centered learning, 49, 50–52, 57, 58–59, 60–62, 68

teachers and teaching methods, 53–54, 58–59, 86–87

TV comedy about, 47–48

Community (TV program), 47–48

completion and completion rates, 122–123, 166–167, 171

computers and electronics

cohort learning, 129–130

Digital Sociology program, 126–128, 129–131

hackathons, 98–99, 116–118

impact on literacy of students, 91–94

MOOCs (see MOOC (massive open online course))

online learning, 120–121

in redesign of education, 77–78, 80, 97, 100, 121, 124, 131–132

search and research skills, 88–89, 95–96

as social purpose, 97–100

and student-centered learning, 103–106, 111–113, 115, 118–119, 123–124, 130, 219–220

technophobia, 75–76

traditional exams in, 107–108

use in class, 90–91

video and video game as collaboration, 219, 220, 223–224

and writing and reading, 91–95

See also Internet

Connie (student), 253

Confederate states, education system development, 25, 26

constitution in class, writing of, 116–117, 265

constructionism, 103

Cook, Anthony E., 235

Coots, Jeffrey, 99

coprime numbers, 80–81, 82–83

cost of college

alleviation of burden, 168–169, 252

and career choice, 165–166, 169

consequences and as problem, 165, 168, 171, 179, 187–189

cost-cutting options, 184–187, 188, 189–191

debt of students, 168, 172, 188

and diversity, 50, 148

and financial aid, 178–179

free tuition, 179, 188, 189

at medical school, 165, 166

out-of-state and in-state admissions, 169–170

and redesign of education, 248, 252

and staff costs, 177–178

in United States, 169–171

and wealthy students, 181

and work while studying, 171, 252

Cottom, Tressie McMillan (@tressiemcphd), 126–131

Coursera, 101, 102, 104–105, 115–116, 122

cover letters, 260–261

Coward, Alexander, 193–195, 197–198, 200, 208–210, 212–213

credit hour, 40

critical technology workshop, 124–126

critical thinking, 117

Cronon, William, 21, 23

Crow, Michael, 148–152, 155, 185–186

Cuomo, Andrew, 189

cutbacks in education, 11, 149, 170–171, 174–176, 178, 190–191, 224–225

cyberattacks, 108

Davis, Jade, 63

DeBlasio, Bill, 68

debt of students, 168, 172, 188

defamiliarization method, 109–110

deficit model of pedagogy, 56–57, 58

DeGioia, John (Jack), 227, 229

DeJesus, Nyvia, 97–98, 99, 100

Delta Cost Project, 62

Department of Education (US), evaluation of education, 136

design thinking, 234

Dewey, Melvil, 113–114

digital literacy, 91, 131

Digital Pedagogy workshop, 125–127

Digital Sociology program, 126–128, 129–131

digital technology. See computers and electronics

disabilities, people with, 156–161

Douglass, Frederick, 131

Du Bois, W. E. B., 33

Duke University, 12, 73, 101, 102, 106, 154–155, 250

Dweck, Carol, 42, 57

Dyn, cyberattack on, 108

eAdvisor program, 185–186

education system

as business, 11–12

change needed in, 7–8, 12–13, 14–15, 44–46

development, 23–26

in Europe in nineteenth century, 27–30, 242

formal practices in, 110

goal of, 15

golden age of, 11

in Japan, 137

needs of young people in, 12–13

public vs. private education, 183

quarter-life crisis, 17–18

redesign of (see redesign of education)

replicated as MOOC, 103–104, 109–110, 115

role of, 78

specialization in, 38–39, 214

traditional infrastructure in, 44–46, 243

war on, 11–12

See also specific topics

educational technology movement, 9

Eliot, Charles William

achievements at Harvard, 32–33, 35–36

biographical details, 18, 19

and choice by students, 34

collaboration between disciplines, 144

and grading system, 206–207

as Harvard president, 30–31

land-grant universities, 26

livelihood and salary, 27

MIT work, 30

“The New Education” essay, 7, 26, 30, 246

opening up of education, 148

Panic of 1857, 18–19

and Puritan college format, 19–20

quarter-life crisis of, 17, 18

and race of students, 33

redesign and reforms at Harvard, 30–36, 148

redesign of education generally, 3–5, 7–8, 26–27, 40–41, 246

research in Europe, 27–29, 242

scientific management in education, 40–41

on vocational schools and studies, 29–30, 32

women in education, 33–34

Eliot, Samuel, 20

elite institutions and students

partnerships for redesign, 231, 249

selectivity and graduation time, 38–39, 50

value of attendance, 181–184

and wealthy students, 180–181

employment

after community college, 69–71

automation in, 139, 231

for Millennials, 13

résumés for, 260–261

skills needed, 140–141

STEM vs. humanities, 140

and synthesis of disciplines, 151–152, 232–233

while studying, 50, 171, 252

workforce ready students, 18, 134, 140–141

engineering education. See STEM education

English as a Second Language (ESL), 57–58

enlightened self-government, 8

entrance exams, 19, 20, 39–40, 207

See also exams and grades; SATs

Environmental Solutions programs, 14

Equality of Opportunity Study (2017), 179

essay writing, in digital age, 93

Estefany (student), 250–251

ethnicity. See race and ethnicity

Europe, education system, 27–30, 242

Evans, Dave, 234

“Examined Life” (video), 158–159

exams and grades

adjustments of results, 201–202

alternatives to and absence of, 214–217, 222, 225–226

criticism of, 206

development in history, 200–208

and Charles Eliot, 206–207

and feedback to students, 195–197, 209

as interference or disincentive, 194, 196, 197

and introductory courses, 199–200

vs. love of learning, 194, 197–198, 208

and rankings, 39–40, 213–214

and redesign of education, 214–216, 222, 225, 248

reliance on, 42–44, 107–108, 195, 199–200, 210–211

and student-centered learning, 219–220, 225–226

“teaching/learning to the test,” 195, 196, 214

as tradition and norm, 107–108, 197–198, 200, 211, 216, 218

See also measurements of education; specific exams

Excelsior Scholarship, 189, 190

exit tickets, 267

Factory Act (1833, England), 23–24

faculty. See professors

“fake news,” 125

Farish, William, 203

feedback, 195–197, 209

fees. See cost of college

“The Ferguson Syllabus,” 126

Filreis, Al, 104

financial aid for students, 178–179

financial crisis of 1857, 18–19

financial crisis of 2008, 11, 175

Finkelstein, I. E., 206

flunk-out course ritual, 56

formal education. See education system

formative feedback, 195–197, 209

four-year institutions. See college and university

France, education system, 28–29

Free Speech Movement Café, 212–213

free tuition, 179, 188, 189

Freire, Paulo, 42, 220

Friedman, Thomas L., 101, 107

funding of education

and ideology, 174–175

new initiatives, 190–191

race and ethnicity, 173–174

in states and universities, 149, 170–171, 174–176, 178, 190–191, 224–225

and STEM, 176–177

#FutureEd, 106–108, 109–110, 115–120, 123–124

Gage, Hannah, 175

Galton, Francis, 201, 202

Gardner, Howard, 42

Gaussian curve, 56, 201–203

gender, and IQ tests, 206

general introductory courses, 199–200

Generation Debt, 171

Georgetown University, 227, 229, 237–239

See also Red House

Germany, education system, 27–29

Ghana, redesign of education, 241–245

GI Bill (Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, 1944), 10, 173–174

Gilman, Arthur, 34

Gilman, Daniel Coit, 31

Goldrick-Rab, Sara, 170–171

Goldstein, Matthew, 65

Google, work skills study, 140–141

grade schools, 203–204

grades. See exams and grades

Greendale Community college, 47–48

Guinier, Lani, 62

Gutenberg, Johannes, 108, 111–113

hackathons, 98–99, 116–118

Hale, Edward Everett, 32

Hampshire College, 214–216

Harper, William Rainey, 31

Harvard

and choice by students, 34

Eliot as president, 30–31

grading system, 206–207

Puritan education, 19–20

reforms by Eliot, 30–36, 148

salary and conditions of professors, 27, 34–35

value of attendance, 182

Harward, Donald, 235

health, synthesis programs, 154–155

Healy Hall, 228, 234

Hendren, Sara, 156–161

hierarchical classification, 113–114

higher education. See college and university

Higher Education Act (1965), 10–11, 173

Hinojosa, Chris, 157

historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), creation of, 26

“The History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education” (MOOC), 105–108, 115–120

honor code, 244–245

hooks, bell, 42

“Household” movement, 221

humanities, mixed with sciences, 156, 253

Humboldt, Wilhelm von, 27–28

Humboldt University of Berlin, 27–28

“I Am Going to College Because…” (video), 250–251

index cards, 113–114

Industrialization, impact, 21–24

information

availability and access to, 112–113

and critical thinking, 117

hierarchical classification, 113–114

reliability and authentication, 125

search and research skills, 88–89, 95–96

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 213

interdisciplinary programs, 14, 45, 143, 156, 181, 233, 249, 252

interest rates on cost of college, 166

Internet

impact, 5–6, 100

pre- and early days, 5, 6

and redesign of education, 6–7, 8–9, 44

skills related to, 88–90

teachers and professors, 78–79

See also computers and electronics

interview in class, tips for professors and teachers, 265

introductory courses, 199–200

IQ testing, 205–206

Ishida, Tetsuya, 134–136, 137

Jailbreak-my-life app, 97–98, 99

jails. See prisons

Japan, STEM education, 133–135, 137

job applications, resumés and letters, 260–261

jobs. See employment

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 97–98, 100

John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, 174

Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 10–11

Joliet Junior College, 54

Jordan, David Starr, 31

junior colleges. See community college

Kansas State University (K-State, KSU), 217–218, 225

kairos, and electronic technologies, 92, 93, 98

Kaitlin (student), 253

Kansas Silent Reading Test, 43, 207

Kansas state, funding of education, 224–225

Kelly, Frederick J., 43, 207

knowledge. See information

Koller, Daphne, 101, 104, 122

Kuehnemann, Eugen, 35

LaGuardia Community College, 59–62, 231

land-grant universities, 25–26

language instruction, at community college, 57–58

Lash, Jonathan, 215, 216

learning

active learning (see active learning)

cooperation in, 82–83, 84, 90

as goal of education, 86–87

love of vs. exams, 194, 197–198, 208

metacognition, 83

principles for success, 197

student-centered (see student-centered learning)

Lee, Ed, 189

letter grades, 204

LGBT 146 course, 95–97

Linnaeus, Carl, 113

literacy, 91–94, 131

literature, 94, 154

Lunsford, Andrea, 91–94

majors, tips for students, 259

Manhattan (KS), 217–218

Manheimer, Eric, 165, 168

Markov chains, 85, 86

Marx, Karl, 23, 24, 128

mass printing, as technophobia, 76–77

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 30

mastery learning, 81

Math 1A course at Berkeley, 193–195, 197–198, 208–209, 211

Math and math class

importance of, 208, 209

learning of, 80–87

teaching and tradition, 194–195, 197–198, 209–210

and technology, 75–76, 79

See also STEM education

Matlogg, Norman, 140

Mazur, Eric, 82

McCrory, Pat, 174

McLuhan, Marshall, 218

Meadowlark Retirement Community, 217, 220–223, 226

measurements of education

development of, 5, 200–208

redesign for, 8–9

reliance on, 42–44

scientific management in, 38–42

See also exams and grades; ranking

meat grading, 204–205

meat production, 21–23

medical school, cost of, 165, 166

Mellow, Gail, 59, 60–62

memorization, 88, 89

metacognition, 83

Metro cards, as assistance, 66

Millennials, 13, 111, 235–236, 238

ministers, Puritan college training, 19–20

Ministry of Education (Japan), 137

Misshula, Evan, 97–98, 100

MIT Media Lab, 103

modern poetry, on MOOCs, 104

Mogulescu, John, 63–66, 67, 68, 69–71

Monopoly game, and math learning, 85

MOOC (massive open online course)

author’s experiment on, 104, 105–108, 109–116, 118–120

benefits and completion rates, 122–123

California courses on, 121–122

description as model, 101–102, 103

hackathons on, 116–118

history of US education on, 105–106, 115–117

limitations and dangers of, 102–103, 104

modern poetry on, 104

promise of, 101, 109, 121–122

as replica of formal education, 103–104, 109–110, 115

and student-centered learning, 104, 105–106, 115, 118–119, 123–124

Morrill, Justin, 25

Morrill Acts, 25, 26

Morsi, Sara, 99

Mosaic 1.0 web browser, 5

Mount Holyoke college, 204

multiple-choice exams, reliance on, 42–44

Mumford, Herbert, 204

Muñoz, José, 96

music, in therapy, 145–146

Nathaniel (student), 251–252

National Academies, and STEM, 138

National Center for Education Statistics Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 213

“New American University,” 148–152, 155–156

“The New Education” essay (C. Eliot), 7, 26, 30, 246

“New Education” for twenty-first century, 8, 13–15

redesign for (see redesign of education)

New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools, 39

New York state, 189–190

New York Times, 101, 176, 237

New York University, 186–187

Newfield, Christopher, 176

Ng, Andrew, 101, 104

North Carolina, 174–175

note taking, collaboration in, 266

Obama administration, 172

Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company, 19

Olin College, 157–158, 159–161

online learning

Digital Sociology program, 126–128, 129–131

evolution in, 123

in for-profit institutions, 128–129

popularity and cost, 120–121

See also MOOC (massive open online course)

open admissions, 214–217

Orlowska, Marta, 97–98, 99, 100

Ortiz, Christine, 155–156

palpable impact, 142, 144, 145, 146–147, 219

Panic of 1857, 18–19

Papert, Seymour, 103, 104, 106

partnerships, for redesign of education, 231–232, 249

Peace, Annie, 221, 222

Pendleton-Jullian, Ann, 233–235, 238, 240

people with disabilities, 156–161

Perry, Britta, 48

personal résumé, 259

Perzanowski, Aaron, 103

philanthropists, financing of redesign, 36–37

Pinker, Steven, 182

Politov, Igor, 99

presidents of colleges, and redesign of education, 31

President’s Society project, 61–62

“Principles and Challenges of Childhood and Society” project, 232

printing press, 76–77, 111–113

prisons, 55, 97–98, 99–100

Private Collegiate Instruction for Women, 34

privatization of education, 182–183

professional résumés, 260–261

professors

adjunct, 11, 12, 63, 119, 121, 167, 177, 199, 249

classroom tips for, 263–267

at Harvard in nineteenth and early twentieth century, 27, 34–35

hours of work, 211–212

and redesign of education, 9

reduction of, 246–247

salary and conditions, 63, 167–168, 178

students tips about, 258

teaching vs. “outputs,” 212

See also teachers and teaching

Project Oxygen, 140

promotion at work, skills for, 140–141

public amateurism, 160

public contribution, tips for professors and teachers, 267

public education. See education system

Puritan colleges and education, 3, 4, 19–20

pyramid structure of universities, 199, 243

quarter-life crisis, 17–18

questions in class, tips for professors and teachers, 264–265

race and ethnicity

in Eliot’s reforms, 33

and funding of education, 173–174

and IQ tests, 205–206

slavery incident at Georgetown, 237–239

racial segregation, 26, 174

Radcliffe College, 34

ranking

absence of in admissions system, 214–217

in community college, 49

of departments and institutions, 39, 211, 212

in education system, 39–40, 49–50, 213–214

for teachers, 59

US News & World Report rankings, 211, 215, 216

See also measurements of education

reading, 77, 94–95

Reagan, Ronald, 11, 173

rebundling and unbundling, 229–230, 232–233

The Red House

course and debate on redesign of education, 233–240

description and role, 227–228, 233

principles of innovation, 229–232

redesign of education

challenge of, 9, 13, 246–247

and community college, 72–73, 249

and cost of college, 248, 252

course and debate at The Red House, 233–240

computers and electronics in, 77–78, 80, 97, 100, 121, 124, 131–132

by Eliot at Harvard, 30–36, 148

by Eliot in nineteenth and early twentieth century, 3–5, 7–8, 26–27, 40–41, 246

in Europe, 27–28

experiments, ideas and questions for, 152–155, 227–229, 239–240

financing by philanthropists, 36–37

and funding of education, 191–192

in Ghana, 241–245

and grades and ranking, 214–216, 222, 225, 248

of measurements, 8–9

need in twenty-first century, 44–46, 246, 250, 254–255

and negativity towards Millennials, 235–236

partnerships and collaboration in, 231–232, 249

post-Internet, 6–7, 8–9, 44

principles at The Red House, 229–231

rebundling and unbundling, 229–230, 232–233

recent movements for, 9–10

scientific management in, 38–42

students’ wish for change, 252–254

and synthesis of fields, 147–152, 155–156, 161, 249, 253

and technology, 90, 109, 121, 231, 247–248, 254

and war on education, 11

reflection, and learning, 83

rehabilitation, and music, 145–146

relatively prime numbers, 80–81, 82–83

research and research skills, 88–89, 95–96, 230

resilience, in students, 236–237

résumés, 259, 260–261

retirement homes and communities, 221–222

rites of passage, 1–2

Robert (student), 223–224

Rodriguez, Juana Maria, 94–96

rural lifestyles, and Industrialization, 21–23

Sanders, Bernie, 189, 190

SATs (Scholastic Aptitude Test)

development, 43, 207

refusal of, 214, 215–216

reliance on, 42–44, 195

See also exams and grades

School of Human Evolution and Social Change, 150

schooling. See education system

Schultz, Jason, 103

science education. See STEM education

sciences, mixed with humanities, 156, 253

scientific labor management, 38, 41

scientific management, in redesign of education, 38–42

Scott, Robert A., 166

search and research skills, 88–89, 95–96

selectivity, in education system, 38–40, 49–50, 52, 56–57, 213–214

senior citizens and aging, 221–222

Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (GI Bill, 1944), 10, 173–174

Sha Xin Wei, 141–147

Siemens, George, 123

Silicon Valley, and redesign of education, 109, 247–248

Simon, Théodore, 205

skills training and for work, 8, 10, 140–141

slavery history at Georgetown, 237–239

slide rules, 75, 79–80

social change, from Industrialization, 21–23

social entrepreneurship, 244

social media, digital education, 126–127

social mobility index, 56

sociology, digital education, 126–128, 129–131

soft skills, need for, 8

South by Southwest, 155

Southern states, 25, 170

specialization, in education system, 38–39, 214

S.S. Central America, 19

standardized entrance exams, 207

Stanford Study of Writing, 91–93

Stanford University, 93, 181, 184

Starbucks, 120

State University of New York (SUNY), tuition costs, 190

states

education system development, 24, 25

funding and cutbacks in education, 11, 149, 170–171, 174–176, 178, 190–191, 224–225

out-of-state and in-state admissions, 169–170

Stella and Charles Guttman Community College, 64

STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education

and automation of employment, 139

changes in, 10

STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education (continued)

class description, 133–134

employment in STEM fields, 140

and funding of education, 176–177

future of and narrowing down to, 136–137

in Japan, 133–135

problems in, 137–139, 199

synthesis with non-STEM fields, 141–147, 149–151, 155–160

Stiles, Ezra, 203

stroke victims and rehabilitation, 144–145

student-centered learning

in community college, 49, 50–52, 57, 58–59, 60–62, 68

and computers and electronics, 103–106, 111–113, 115, 118–119, 123–124, 130, 219–220

exams and grades, 219–220, 225–226

and MOOCs, 104, 105–106, 115, 118–119, 123–124

tips for professors and teachers, 263–267

study groups, 259–260

Sullivan, Teresa, 109

summative feedback, 196–197

syllabus, collective design, 265–266

synthesis

employment of graduates, 151–152, 232–233

experiments in, 152–155, 219–221, 232, 243–244

and redesign of education, 147–152, 155–156, 161, 249, 253

STEM with non-STEM fields, 141–147, 149–151, 155–160

tips for students, 257–258

Synthesis program, 144

Systema Naturae (Linnaeus), 113

Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 37–38, 40, 41

Taylor, Sunaura, 158–159

Taylorism, 38–39, 40

teachers and teaching

classroom tips for, 263–267

and clickers, 82, 83–84

and Internet, 78–79

ranking for, 59

salary and wages, 167

students tips about, 258

teaching methods and approaches, 58–59, 86–87

and technology and innovation, 78–80

technophobia, 75–76, 78–80, 87–88

training of, 53–54

See also professors

“teaching to the test,” 195, 196, 214

technology and innovation

cohort learning, 129–130

as cost-cutting option, 185–186

costs of online learning, 120–121

critical technology workshop, 124–126

evolution in, 123–124

fear of (see technophobia)

in for-profit education, 128–129

and math, 75–76, 79

promise of, 108–110, 121–122, 123–124, 129

in redesign of education, 90, 109, 121, 231, 247–248, 254

teachers’ reaction to, 78–80

use in classroom, 82, 83–84, 87, 89–91, 95–97

usefulness of, 88–89

See also computers and electronics

technology education. See STEM education

technophilia, 102–103, 109, 121–122

technophobia

description and arguments, 75–77, 87–88, 100

in teachers and professors, 75–76, 78–80, 87–88

tenure, 178

tests and testing. See exams and grades

Texas, 176

therapy, and music, 145–146

Think-Pair-Share (T-P-S) method, 263–264

Thomas, Jordan, 219–220

Thorndike, Edward Lee “Ted,” 205

Thrun, Sebastian, 121, 122

timer, in exams, 107–108

tips for students, 257–261

tips for teachers and professors, 263–267

transdisciplinary inquiry. See synthesis

translingual learning model, 57–58

@tressiemcphd (Cottom, Tressie McMillan), 126–131

Truman Commission, 10

tuition fees. See cost of college

tutors, 260

Twitter, for education, 126

two-year institutions. See community college

Udacity, 121, 128, 212

unbundling and rebundling, 229–230, 232–233

university. See college and university

“The University as a Design Problem” course, 233–234

University of Berlin (Humboldt University of Berlin), 27–28

University of Bologna, 118

University of California, Berkeley, Math 1A, 193–195, 197–198, 208–209, 211

University of Colorado, 176

University of Mary Washington, 124–125

University of North Carolina (UNC), 174–175

University of Texas, 176

University of Virginia (UVA), 109, 152–153

University of Wisconsin (UW), 178

US News & World Report rankings, 211, 215, 216

Vanderbilt University, 81, 86

Veblen, Thorstein, and Veblen effect, 180, 181

video game, as collaboration, 220, 223–224

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), 126–127, 129, 131

“A Vision of Students Today” (video), 218, 219

vocational schools and studies, 29–30, 32, 53

Walker, Scott, 178

Warren, Elizabeth, 172

wealthy students, 179, 180–181

weather and climate, 146

Wesch, Michael, 218, 219, 220, 222, 224, 225–226

Western knowledge and views, 112, 117

White, Andrew D., 31

wicked problems, 234, 238

Wiki Education Foundation, 95

Wikipedia, 95–96, 112, 114–115

Winger, Jeff, 47–48

Wissoker, Ken, 75, 79, 80, 164–165

women, Eliot’s views on, 33–34

Women in Technology Hackathon for Good, 98, 99

work and workforce. See employment

workforce ready students, 18, 134, 140–141

writing of students

impact of electronic technologies, 91–95

as social purpose, 92, 93, 95–96

Yale, tuition costs, 171

Yerkes, Robert, 205

Zuckerberg, Mark, 140