SAS Board Education Articles

This blog is maintained by Devin Otto Kimble who is a board member at the Singapore American School - The world's largest US curriculum K-12 school located overseas.

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The Rich Man's Dropout Club

In 2011 the billionaire Peter Thiel picked 24 teenagers to prove you don’t need a college degree to be a success. Here’s what happened.

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A Teenager’s View on Social Media

Written by an actual teen

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Rox and Roll: Parents: let Harvard go

The antithesis to the previous post.

As a former admissions officer for two "elite" schools -- one Ivy and one West Coast Ivy-equivalent -- I am in a unique position to offer some insights for parents that may be of help in raising healthful teens. Exasperated...

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How to Get Into an Ivy League College—Guaranteed

Steven Ma of ThinkTank Learning says he knows what it takes to get kids into top colleges. And he'll refund your money if he's wrong

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Older, Smaller Buildings Are Key to Neighborhood Vitality - National Trust for Historic Preservation

As the software of learning is considered, best not to forget the impact of the physical environment.

A new research report released today, Older, Smaller, Better: Measuring How the Character of Buildings and Blocks Influences Urban Vitality, by the National Trust for Historic Preservation demonstrates how neighborhoods that protect and find new uses for older, smaller buildings are more economically sustainable, culturally vibrant, and opportunity-rich than those with only larger, newer buildings.

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Why Are Finland's Schools Successful?

The country's achievements in education have other nations, especially the United States, doing their homework

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What Will a Liberal Arts Education Look Like in 50 Years?

"Why would someone pay $50,000 or $60,000 a year for a private university when they can dial up TED Talks?"

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The Future of College?

A brash tech entrepreneur thinks he can reinvent higher education by stripping it down to its essence, eliminating lectures and tenure along with football games, ivy-covered buildings, and research libraries. What if he's right? 

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What College Can’t Do - The New Yorker

Much of the conversation around the “crisis in higher education” is needlessly complicated by nostalgia for a premodern university.

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The Invisible Force Behind College Admissions

Meet the real gatekeepers of higher education, an unseen army of data-crunching salesmen who dazzle college administrators and perpetuate the arms race that sends tuition prices ever higher.

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Don't Send Your Kid to the Ivy League

The nation’s top colleges are turning our kids into zombies.

So where should you send them?  State universities that have been gutted by the culture wars?  Small, liberal arts colleges who are struggling without endowments?

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Don't Send Your Kid to the Ivy League

The nation's top colleges are turning our kids into zombies.

So where should you send them?  State universities that have been gutted by the culture wars?  Small, liberal arts colleges who are struggling without endowments?

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Relax, your kids will be fine

IN 1693 the philosopher John Locke warned that children should not be given too much “unwholesome fruit” to eat. Three centuries later, misguided ideas about...

Economist magazine says middle-class parents should give their children more freedom

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Yale Entrepreneurship Speaker Series: Aaron Feuer

Aaron Feuer is CEO and cofounder of Panorama Education, a Boston-based company that helps schools improve through data analytics

Great video on many levels - student evaluation of teachers, entrepreneurship, college, et al,

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It's harder than ever.