The Gaping M Shaped Void for DIY Education
Alan Levine,
CogDogBlog,
Jul 05, 2010
Alan Levine's review of DIY U finds good bits but "there's a certain wafting odor I cannot escape from." It pretends to be objective well-researched journalism, he writes, but "t wavered from obviously highly researched sources where every sentence was footnoted followed by a sentence of sweeping generalization that was just left hanging out there." It leaves the reader wondering whether Kamenetz is describing the state of affairs or advocating something. "Does the author wish to be part of the movement to revolutionize education? Does she have a stake?" And the gap is, "just like Anya paints that the current college system favors those with a pre-disposition to succeed; what we have now in the prototype DIY U also seems to favor people with other pre-dispositions to do well in this different environment."
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