By Jacqueline Thomsen. Imagine if schoolteachers and college professors were immediately able to identify how each of their students learns, what learning style works best for each child and what new topics he or she is struggling with. Read more...
By Chronicle Staff. Report: “The Pell Partnership: Ensuring a Shared Responsibility for Low-Income Student Success”
Organization: The Education Trust
Summary: The Education Trust gathered graduation rates for both Pell Grant recipients and nonrecipients of the need-based grants at 1,149 public and private nonprofit four-year colleges. More...
By Andy Thomason. A German scientist has prohibited access to a widely used research tool he owns in European countries that he says are welcoming too many refugees, the magazine Science reports. More...
By Ben Yagoda. Starbucks watchers were taken aback last month when the company made a surprise announcement about its standard-bearing fall beverage. More...
By Frank Pasquale. In James Thurber’s 1942 short story "The Catbird Seat," the boisterous Ulgine Barrows shatters the peaceful diligence of Erwin Martin, head of the filing department at his firm. More...
By Frank Donoghue. Most academics are familiar with one or more well-publicized incidents in which professors were suspended, were fired, or had a hiring contract rescinded because of controversial statements they had made on social media. That common denominator should give pause to all academics who value their jobs. More...
By Mason Stokes. Since I published an essay, "In Defense of Trigger Warnings," in The Chronicle about 18 months ago, such a defense has become even harder to mount. Though the much ballyhooed fear that faculty would soon be required to issue trigger warnings has failed to materialize (the one college that proposed such a requirement, Oberlin, has withdrawn it), public attention to the topic has resulted in a frenzy of too-easy condemnation and ridicule. More...
By Zahir Irani. It’s tough to get noticed as an early-career academic – but universities are desperate for people who can boost the employability of their students. More...
Selina Todd’s suggestion about abolishing university entry requirements and decreasing status distinctions between universities is excellent (Let’s turn Oxbridge into a comprehensive, 22 September). It would, among other things, help to free secondary schools from the stranglehold of examinations, as well as removing a main reason for parents choosing private education. More...
By . Bored students is the least of it – the bullet point-ization of information is making us stupid and irresponsible. More...
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