Misc

I’m fascinated by self-assessment: how we view ourselves versus how we actually are. As an example, when I ran the first session of my Foundations course, we started with fitness. I was impressed by how many people claimed to already have a solid exercise habit. Now, that could be due to sampling bias given the […]

Most young people who enroll in college after high school graduation do so in the hope that it will help them secure a good job. Similarly, many employers look to colleges as sources of high-quality candidates to fill job openings. But a new report calls the economic opportunity promise of higher education into question.

The share of teachers working second jobs outside the classroom did not change much from before the pandemic.