McGraw-Hill Education Launches Textbook and E-Book Rental Program
Rhea Kelly, Campus Technology, 2018/02/20
Considering that you can only rent e-books as it is, it's hard to see what the big draw is here. More...
5 mars 2018
25 février 2018
Teenagers aren’t reading enough tough books – here’s why that matters
To find out what children are reading, I conducted a study of 963,678 students in 4,364 schools across the UK. I found that from 2016 to 2017, students read 18,044,078 books: it sounds like a lot, but when I dug down into the data, I found some worrying trends. More...
24 février 2018
'Measuring Success'
By Scott Jaschik. New book takes aim at test-optional admissions, but others question ties between the editors and the College Board. More...
24 février 2018
Does Tenure Process Keep Professors Focused on U.S.?
By Scott Jaschik. Authors discuss their new book that suggests American higher education -- especially in the social sciences -- is less globally minded than rhetoric might make you think. More...
20 février 2018
Dead Fingers Talk
Scott McLemee describes a few of the ways Philippe Charlier's study of the dead, When Science Sheds Light on History: Forensic Science and Anthropology, illuminates the world of the living. More...
20 février 2018
Junk-News Junkies
Oxford report renders as charts and correlations something that would otherwise go undoubted: that a well-funded and well-organized hard-right political movement has forged its own media system, writes Scott McLemee. More...
20 février 2018
Why Are You All So Young and Stupid?
Kieran Healy offers a tongue-in-cheek table of contents from his new Angry Professor book project. More...
20 février 2018
200 Years Young
Released last year but receiving as yet very little English-language press coverage, Der Junge Karl Marx is a nuanced and surprisingly accurate portrait of the revolutionary as a young man. That said, I cannot vouch for the chase scene. More...
20 février 2018
Toulouse : unique en France, une librairie indépendante installée en plein cœur d’une université
La librairie "Etudes" est née, il y a bientôt 30 ans, de la volonté des administrateurs de l'Université Jean Jaurès à Toulouse. Une initiative favorisée par le ministre de la culture de l'époque, Jack Lang.
Créée au départ comme librairie universitaire ,"Etudes" a vu passer en bientôt 30 ans d'existence des générations d'étudiants. Plus...
28 janvier 2018
U. of Pittsburgh student board endorses effort to trim textbook expenses
An effort to cut textbook expenses facing thousands of University of Pittsburgh students through greater use of “open” educational resources in the classroom appears to be gaining momentum among campus leaders. More...
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