This, too, is something only Congress can change, and perhaps it didn't anticipate this problem or worry about it back when it thought it was doing students a favor by letting them consolidate debt at a fixed rate and relieving them of having to keep track of a big pile of individual loans.
In so doing, students shift into disciplinary ways of seeing and talking (Abrahamson, 2009; Bamberger & diSessa, 2003; Sfard, 2002).
Most graduate training programs are unknowingly doing students a disservice by failing to adequately prepare them for alternative careers.
In so doing, students were motivated to reflect about what systems they are most interested in, what provokes more curiosity, and what kind of scientists they would like to be.
Americans must face up to the truth: If we re-package a 20th-century trade-school model and pretend that it should guide 21st-century higher education, we will be doing students–and the nation a great disservice.
"How can you offer a course without presenting students with the theory behind what they are doing?" Students who take the class won't be able to get credit for it if they transfer to another university because "nobody else is doing anything like that," says Philipp.
