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Education

Academic Gamesmanship: How to Make a PhD Pay

I first learned of Pierre van den Berghe‘s brilliant little book on how to make one’s way in higher education as a psychology graduate student in the early 1980s from my then mentor, Leland Wilkinson. Lee loaned me Academic Gamesmanship,…

Bill Dembski
April 6, 2024

Education

Academic Steroids: Plagiarism and Data Falsification as Performance Enhancers in Higher Education

The Similarity Between Academic and Athletic Misconduct In the competitive world of higher education, the pressure to publish groundbreaking research and achieve recognition can be immense. This drive for academic success mirrors the high-stakes of professional sports, where athletes often…

Bill Dembski
January 29, 2024

Education

Speed Reading Prospects and Pitfalls —An Interview with Marc Slater

Marc Slater is an entrepreneur, a computer programmer, and the CEO of eReflect, which makes software packages to help students improve their study skills. Marc’s team has developed software to improve students’ vocabulary, spelling, typing, and reading. This interview focuses…

Bill Dembski
September 3, 2022

Education

Dave Tomar’s New Book on Contract Cheating

David Tomar just published, through AcademicInfluence.com, a book titled The Complete Guide to Contract Cheating in Higher Education. Tomar was for a decade an academic ghostwriter, writing term papers that students would then turn in as their own work. Contract…

Bill Dembski
July 8, 2022

Education

Resources for Going to College

Here are some resources that readers of this blog may find useful in going to or sending their kids to college: Interview by Jed Macosko: Interview by Karina Macosko: Interview by Jed Macosko: Interview by Jed Macosko: Interview by Karina…

Bill Dembski
May 5, 2021

Culture, Education

ACTA Celebrates 25 Years

ACTA (the American Council of Trustees and Alumni) does outstanding work helping to restore freedom of thought and expression to American higher education. Here’s a video in which they celebrate their last 25 years. May their work intensify and accelerate…

Bill Dembski
December 22, 2020

Education

Magnifying the Universe, version 2.0

Back in 2012 I helped create a flash version of a dynamic infographic called “Magnifying the Universe” for a website called Numbersleuth.org, which is now defunct (click here for its Web Archive record). This infographic was essentially an updated interactive…

Bill Dembski
April 18, 2019

Education

Frank Bruni’s Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be

New York Times columnist Frank Bruni authored a book back in 2016 titled Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania. I was alerted to the book today because Amazon tracks my interests,…

Bill Dembski
April 17, 2019

Education

Julie Lythcott-Haim on College Rankings

My youngest child is off to college in the fall. So it was with interest that I watched this brief interview with Julie Lythcott-Haim, previously an admissions officer at Stanford. She’s been hammering on the problem of overparenting for some…

Bill Dembski
March 21, 2019

Education

Light of the World Bible Memory Course

Back in the early 1980s, an organization called Light of the World Ministries put out a Bible memory course: Light of the World Scripture Memory Course. The basic course consisted of five cassettes with 100 Bible verses. The advanced course…

Bill Dembski
September 20, 2018