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June 17, 2013
One family recently attended a miserable graduation ceremony, and offers ideas on how colleges can do better.
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June 19, 2013 - 9:00pm
Missing voices in the discussions about the future of higher education.
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May 1, 2013
Machines are "reading" novels that literary historians would otherwise never get to. Scott McLemee considers the results and prospects of "Macroanalysis."
April 30, 2013
Disciplines that are under siege would do well to reject the models for their fields that were created by elite universities and that scare off students and the public, write Chris Buczinsky and Robert Frodeman.
April 29, 2013
Massive open online courses might only be a footnote in the evolution of higher education, but they reflect a revolution that is taking place regardless of whether they succeed, writes Arthur Levine.
April 26, 2013
Talk about fundamental changes is well and good, but colleges can and should adopt proven reforms (expanding access to bottleneck courses, lowering textbook costs) right now, write Gene Hickok and Tom Shaver.
April 25, 2013
Because of their lineage, the highly publicized courses are widely assumed to set the standard for online education. But the first wave of them don’t come close, writes Ronald Legon.
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