Colleen MascenikQuarantine is a luxury that starves the poorest: Mumbai authorities are focused on the wrong threatFor many in Mumbai, morbidity was a daily threat long before white-coated experts started splitting hairs on the Wuhan numbers.Mar 18, 2020Mar 18, 2020
Colleen MascenikYour mind is a web, not a stack of bricks — Let’s take stonemasonry metaphors out of learningAs a mom who has helped her kids depart occasionally or permanently from school around age-12, I get a lot of flack from family. I come…Feb 12, 2020Feb 12, 2020
Colleen MascenikYou’re a great manager, but with your teen you’re pretty lameMiddle-aged parents who self-identify as highly-educated are a pretty monotonous bunch. Get one pregnant, and she’ll overhaul her diet…Feb 5, 2020Feb 5, 2020
Colleen Mascenik4 Reasons the DOJ and FTC should launch an Anti-Trust investigation against America’s…The heat is rising on America’s undergraduate institutions, but for reasons peripheral to the real problem. Yes, they’re favoring elite…Apr 4, 2019Apr 4, 2019
Colleen MascenikRaising my daughter by ten thousand suggestionsMy 14 year-old daughter recently dug up a stick-figure drawing she made in kindergarten of herself scaling a smoking volcano. “I want to…Feb 26, 2019Feb 26, 2019
Colleen MascenikWhat if consumers demanded the unbundling of the 4yr undergraduate degree?The 4-year, single-institution-loyal, core-curriculum driven undergraduate degree is a bundled product. If it were a cable/telephone/data…Feb 18, 2019Feb 18, 2019
Colleen MascenikCollege-aged kids before 40? The lonely feeling of ‘Stop! This whole thing is a hoax!’So I started having kids at twenty, and now we have five. No need to go over the odd demographic niche I’ve been living in from…Feb 7, 2019Feb 7, 2019
Colleen MascenikCollege debt begins with a perilous teen fantasy.As U.S. interest rates rise, outstanding college indebtedness rises, and both the number of defaulting borrowers and the proportion of…Jan 25, 2019Jan 25, 2019
Colleen MascenikDivulge, But Trust!University of Texas at Austin asks undergraduate applicants to write 500 words about this:Jan 21, 2019Jan 21, 2019
Colleen MascenikWhat do we mean by Equality when we’re talking about teen education?What is equality? And when some of us get together talking about secondary education, why do I get the feeling we’re talking about…Jan 16, 2019Jan 16, 2019