Steven Krause response to a point raised in the Chronicle this week (and a point I've made numerous times over the last two decades) about the similarities between education and news media. First, he says, "while content 'scales,' education and assessment do not." Second, he writes, "people who make this comparison to journalism... underestimate the depth and breadth of higher education." Third, he says, "while most people seeking news don't like to pay for it, almost all would-be college students (and their families) are more than willing to pay." I think there are responses to each of those arguments. I would note, especially, that when I was a young paper carrier, everybody paid for news. And that a lot of what happens in education does scale.
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