22 juillet 2018

A Mind at the End of Its Tether

HomeWhether or not madness seems like the right word for such a state of mind, Barbara K. Lipska's The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery is likely to make a certain impression on the reader approaching middle age or well into it, writes Scott McLemee. More...

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The Hunger Project

HomeYou do not expect to find much good news in a book with the words “mass starvation” in the title. Dread feels appropriate, maybe obligatory. But Alex de Waal’s Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine (Polity) makes some encouraging points, and it seems appropriate to start with them, just to deprive pessimism of its home-court advantage. More...

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Race and Foreign Language

HomeDeborah Parker describes how it feels to be an Asian faculty member in Italian, a field in which there are very few minorities, and how greater diversification offers a way forward. More...

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The Costly Downside to Ditching AP

HomeWhile the program has its downsides, schools looking to give their students a more equal footing as college candidates shouldn’t overlook the benefits, argues Ali Lincoln. More...

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The Problem That Would Not Be Tolerated Elsewhere

HomeDespite a silence that is “brutal,” the medical profession has known for decades that significant numbers are being sexually harassed on campuses, argues Billie Wright Dziech. More...

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Snowflakes and Free Speech on Campuses

HomeShawna Shapiro surveys students in the wake of a controversy at her institution and discovers insights into what’s missing in the discourse. More...

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For refugees in Kenya, an education in hope

Screenshot-2018-4-19 Techno-News BlogTechno-News Blog. The Kakuma Refugee Camp, 80 miles from anywhere in northwest Kenya, is a world apart, a holding center for thousands dispossessed by war and conflict. Opportunity knocks rarely here, but a once-obscure New Hampshire university has made it the idealistic focus of its global plans. More...

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A college program that ‘never ends’

Screenshot-2018-4-19 Techno-News BlogTechno-News Blog. College that “never ends” may be the future, according to a Washington Post story describing a new University of Michigan program that offers scholarships for students to come back and take courses throughout their lives. More...

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Canvas Catches, and Maybe Passes, Blackboard

Screenshot-2018-4-19 Techno-News BlogTechno-News Blog. Canvas has unseated Blackboard Learn as the leading LMS at U.S. colleges and universities, according to new data from MindWires Consulting. More...

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Who shoulders most of nation’s ~$1.5 trillion in student debt? Women

Screenshot-2018-4-19 Techno-News BlogTechno-News Blog. Women owe about $890 billion of the country’s $1.48 trillion student loan debt, nearly double the $490 billion owed by men, placing them at a financial disadvantage as they begin their careers, according to a recently released report from the American Association of University Women (AAUW). More...

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