Although some analysts questioned the finding of search dominance, it’s a user behavior that gets stronger every year. Today, many users are so reliant on search that it’s undermining their problem-solving abilities. Ironically, the better search gets, the more dangerous it gets as people increasingly assume that whatever the search engine coughs up must be the answer.

via Incompetent Research Skills Curb Users’ Problem Solving (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox).

States around the country are looking to trim their budgets, and public school teachers are feeling unfairly attacked. At the same time, the United States continues to fall behind other countries in student performance rankings.

via How to Raise the Status of Teachers – Room for Debate – NYTimes.com.

After reading through the nine statements it’s time to scan the comments from the readers.

The autonomy arguments tend to stick.

2. Abolish permanent departments, even for undergraduate education, and create problem-focused programs. These constantly evolving programs would have sunset clauses, and every seven years each one should be evaluated and either abolished, continued or significantly changed. It is possible to imagine a broad range of topics around which such zones of inquiry could be organized: Mind, Body, Law, Information, Networks, Language, Space, Time, Media, Money, Life and Water.

via Op-Ed Contributor – End the University as We Know It – NYTimes.com.