By Joseph Storch. In Friday’s decision in Cambridge University Press v. Patton, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit followed decades of jurisprudence in casting aside bright line rules for determining whether faculty made fair use of copyrighted material. This is regrettable, as the celebrated 2012 district court opinion in the same case had opened up the possibility of teaching faculty how to properly make fair use of material using plain terms and easy-to-understand concepts, while the appeals court opinion returns us to the days of case-by-case holistic analysis and detailed exceptions, loopholes, and caveats. Read more...

By Arthur Levine. The newspaper and book businesses have been transformed in recent years. But not education. After a 30-year school reform movement, no major urban school district in the country has been successfully turned around. Meanwhile, despite loud and persistent criticism from government, media and families, the cost of college continues to rise faster than inflation and student loan debt is ballooning. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. Everyone knows that there’s only one use for single quotation marks, and that’s to denote a quote within a quote. Right?
Apparently not. Composition instructors report seeing an uptick in the intentional use of single-quotation marks outside their traditional use, to indicate internal dialogue, irony, non-original short phrases or neologisms. Read more...

By Kaitlin Mulhere. A summer academic program for public school teachers, graduate students and college professors will shrink its borders in 2016. The National Endowment for the Humanities will no longer offer summer seminars or institutes outside of the U.S. and its territories, according to a letter sent last month to past program directors by William Rice Craig, director of the agency's division of education programs. Read more...