In addition to editing Boston Magazine’s Best Schools issue, this month I also wrote a feature about the mounting skepticism in higher education circles about whether college is “still worth it.” A slew of studies, reports, and articles have come out in recent months that have raised some fundamental questions about how much students actually learn–or don’t–while in college. So I spoke with academics about their attempts to create more accountability on campus, and find out if my own college experience was worth the while.

[Is College Over?]

Top schools in Massachusetts: MyFoxBOSTON.com

I think doing television is easier when you don’t think about it. Or at least that’s how it went this time. Since I oversaw the magazine’s Best Schools issue for September, I got the chance to talk it up a bit on our local Fox affiliate. What you can’t see is the extra set of cue cards we used so I’d be able to keep the awards straight. If the president can use a teleprompter, I can use a cue card, right?