{"id":397,"date":"2010-07-03T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/fast-tracking-alternatives-to-college\/"},"modified":"2020-01-22T15:52:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T15:52:54","slug":"fast-tracking-alternatives-to-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/fast-tracking-alternatives-to-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast-tracking: Alternatives to College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am reading Kamenetz&#8217;s book &#8220;DIY U&#8221; and found this relevant article.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/2010\/06\/alternatives-to-college.html\">Fast-tracking: Alternatives to College<\/a>: &#8220;Based on a few years of observation, we noticed that there was little or no correlation between academic performance, as measured by grades and the type of college a person attended, and their real on-the-job performance. That was a genuine surprise, particularly for me, as I grew up thinking grades really mattered &#8230;&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<fieldset>\n<legend>Related articles by Zemanta<\/legend>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.downes.ca\/cgi-bin\/page.cgi?post=52799\">Sakai Conference: Kamenetz Keynote<\/a> (downes.ca)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2010\/07\/experienced-based_education.html\">Experienced-based education and the 21st century workforce<\/a> (makezine.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/fieldset>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=6580e55f-7505-40f3-96ae-162edcb86e46\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am reading Kamenetz&#8217;s book &#8220;DIY U&#8221; and found this relevant article. Fast-tracking: Alternatives to College: &#8220;Based on a few years of observation, we noticed that there was little or no correlation between academic performance, as measured by grades and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/fast-tracking-alternatives-to-college\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[1451,1452],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-diy-u","tag-kamenetz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}