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5 septembre 2019

Re: Hellllllp!!!!

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Many professors say that teaching students how to email them properly is a necessary gift that keeps on giving. More...

5 septembre 2019

‘Don’t Let the Bret Stephens Bite’

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Professor's tweet about the controversial New York Times columnist goes viral after the columnist CC's his provost on an angry email. More...

5 septembre 2019

Questionable Rejection

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Sociologist says journal dismissed her paper because she'd shared it elsewhere as a preprint -- even though the publication had a pro-preprint policy. How often does this happen. More...

5 septembre 2019

Why School Reform Is Impossible

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Seymour Papert[Edit][Delete]: Why School Reform Is Impossible, The Journal of the Learning Sciences [Edit][Delete] October 3, 2006
"The structure of School is so deeply rooted that one reacts to deviations from it as one would to a grammatically deviant utterance: Both feel wrong on a level deeper than one's ability to formulate reasons. This phenomenon is related to 'assimilation blindness' insofar as it refers to a mechanism of mental closure to foreign ideas. More...

5 septembre 2019

Positive Returns for Direct Assessment

HomeBy Paul Fain. Students in the aggressive form of competency-based program typically complete faster, spend less and have better retention rates than their peers, Capella says after five years of offering the so-called direct-assessment programs. More...

4 septembre 2019

Secret Searches and Faculty Fury

HomeBy Nick Hazelrigg. With a rising number of "secret" presidential searches that leave faculty members jilted, some point to the use of search firms as the cause of the troubles. More...

4 septembre 2019

Guilt by Association?

HomeBy Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Palestinian student bound for Harvard said he was blocked from the U.S. after immigration officers questioned him about friends' social media posts critical of President Trump. Civil liberties advocates fear incident could deter international scholars and students. More...

3 septembre 2019

There Has to Be a Better Way

HomeMust mandatory diversity and antiharassment trainings consistently conjure up dread, sarcasm and contempt? Deborah J. Cohan suggests some improvements. More...

3 septembre 2019

A Contingent Faculty Compromise

HomeContingent faculty members are underpaid, yet administrators rarely take seriously the arguments championing equal pay for equal work, writes Daniel Davis. It’s time for a new approach. More...

3 septembre 2019

Academe and Anomie

HomeNothing in our job descriptions requires us to be the best ever with the most publications in the best journals with the most grant money, writes Michael Rocque, so we should stop comparing and ranking ourselves. More...

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