9 octobre 2017
The Equity-Minded Civic Learning All Americans Need
The most constructive response to Charlottesville would be for educators to make such learning central, writes Carol Geary Schneider. More...
9 octobre 2017
Tuition Discounting: The Problem, not the Remedy
It’s an addiction, argues Frank H. Wu, and presidents, backed by boards, have to wean themselves off this drug. More...
9 octobre 2017
Freud's Furniture
Nathan Kravis’s On the Couch: A Repressed History of the Analytic Couch From Plato to Freud examines why that piece of furniture ever entered the analytic tradition and how its efficacy and centrality have now come under scrutiny, writes Scott McLemee. More...
9 octobre 2017
A Call for Curricular Coherence
Congratulations are in order for all the new college students now arriving on campuses. As they prepare for the transition to college and contemplate their academic futures, their focus will turn to choosing a major. More...
9 octobre 2017
Let's Trash Unsupported Course Requirements
Neither time or money should be wasted by requiring students to sit in large lecture halls, taking introductory-level courses from an arbitrarily-chosen bucket of courses, write Arthur "Tim" Garson Jr. and Robert C. Pianta. More...
9 octobre 2017
Why Racial Preferences Remain Wrongheaded
Those who defend them should consider whether they’d require them indefinitely and whether such a requirement is consistent with good race relations in the country America is becoming, argues Roger Clegg. More...
9 octobre 2017
The Unabomber on Screen
Without expecting it, and even without recognizing it at first, I found myself standing in front of the Unabomber’s cabin a couple of years ago. Not in its original setting, of course. When the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Theodore Kaczynski outside Lincoln, Montana in 1996, it seized as evidence not only his papers and bomb-making materials but the building itself, which is now on display at the Newseum in downtown Washington, DC as part of an exhibition on the media and the FBI. More...
9 octobre 2017
Improving the Quality of Education
By concentrating so heavily on graduation rates, policy makers are ignoring danger signs that the amount that students are learning in college may be declining, writes Derek Bok. More...
9 octobre 2017
The Numbers Won’t Speak For Themselves
An high-profile legal case about Mexican-American studies demonstrates why academics should become publicly engaged in issues in contemporary society, argue Nolan L. Cabrera, Stephen Pitti and Angela Valenzuela. More...
9 octobre 2017
Worse Than It Sounds
Megan McClean Coval warns of the dangers of Congress’s proposed cuts to the Pell Grant reserve fund. More...
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