Stimulus Crazy
By Watson Scott Swail, President and CEO, Educational Policy Institute Yesterday In recent Week in Review Commentaries, I’ve discussed the difficulty assessing the true nature of the current financial straits we find ourselves in. President Obama has spent an inordinate amount of federal funds trying to rescue the economy, and just this week, the G-20 announced it would infuse an additional $1.1 trillion dollars to the … Continue reading Stimulus Crazy
Facing Global Challenges… A European University Perspective
By Watson Scott Swail, President and CEO, Educational Policy Institute PRAGUE, CZ — I write this morning from beautiful Prague, or Praha by local standards, one of my favorite cities in the world. By the time most of you get this in your mailbox this Friday morning, I will have delivered my plenary address at the European University Association’s Annual Convention. The theme of this year’s … Continue reading Facing Global Challenges… A European University Perspective
Arrogance, Ignorance, and Evaluation
By Watson Scott Swail, President and CEO, Educational Policy Institute After 25 years as an educator and 15 as an evaluator, data geek, and policy wonk, I’m forever fascinated and amazed at the arrogance and ignorance people have toward evaluation of educational programs. Maybe I’ve been hanging out with the wrong crowd for too long, but I don’t think so. I’ve worked for a variety of … Continue reading Arrogance, Ignorance, and Evaluation
More Lipstick, More Pig
By Watson Scott Swail, President and CEO, Educational Policy Institute “A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe.” –President Barack Obama, February 4, 2009 Two weeks ago in my Commentary, I wrote about the state of the economy and the stimulus package. Today I will go at it again because I am so dismayed at the way Congress and the Obama … Continue reading More Lipstick, More Pig
A Place Called Hope?
By Watson Scott Swail, President and CEO, Educational Policy Institute Tuesday was a special day. Every four years we have a wonderful opportunity to put aside partisan bickering and heal for a moment in an event so uniquely American, but also so important and consequential that the world stops to take notice. This, of course, was not the typical inauguration. It was the inauguration of the … Continue reading A Place Called Hope?
The Swail Letter on Higher Education 