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28 août 2016

Should writing for the public count toward tenure?

The ConversationBy . Many pressing issues have been calling for attention these days – the unprecedented increase in mortality rates among white Americans, the Black Lives Matter movement and the upending of the Republican Party. More...

28 août 2016

Zero tolerance laws increase suspension rates for black students

The ConversationBy . The State Senate of Michigan is currently considering legislation that would scale back “zero tolerance” discipline policies in the state’s public schools. More...

28 août 2016

Why Turkey wants to silence its academics

The ConversationBy . After the July 15 coup attempt in Turkey, one of the first actions of the Turkish state and government was to purge thousands of academics and deans from office. More...

28 août 2016

Want college to be affordable? Start with Pell Grants

The ConversationBy . In her speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton talked about free college and student debt relief. More...

28 août 2016

Do students lose depth in digital reading?

The ConversationBy . Do students learn as much when they read digitally as they do in print. More...

28 août 2016

Academic print books are dying. What’s the future?

The ConversationBy . The print-format scholarly book, a bulwark of academia’s publish-or-perish culture, is an endangered species. The market that has sustained it over the years is collapsing. More...

28 août 2016

Why have the demands of black students changed so little since the 1960s?

The ConversationBy . The student protests at the University of Missouri and on other campuses across the country have brought greater attention to the educational plight of black students. 
The protests have exposed how experiences of black students in predominantly white campus environments are cloaked in isolation, invisibility and downright disregard for their rights. 
Sadly, campus racism is not new, and neither are the demands of black student activists. More...

28 août 2016

Straight A students may not be the best innovators

The ConversationBy  and . Demand for innovation is at an all-time high. Innovation is now recognized as being key to economic growth strategies in the United States, Canada and countries in the European Union. More...

28 août 2016

Should wealthier students get subsidized college education?

The ConversationBy . Last summer, as the presidential campaign was just getting rolling in earnest, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announcedNew College Compact,” a proposal designed to provide relief for the rapidly rising sticker price of college. More...

28 août 2016

Here’s how competition makes peer review more unfair

The ConversationBy . A scientist can spend several months, in many cases even years, strenuously investigating a single research question, with the ultimate goal of making a contribution – little or big – to the progress of human knowledge. More...

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