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Leveraging Cognitive Dissonance to Enhance Student Learning
How to strengthen students’ critical thinking skills and metacognitive abilities.
Closing the College Preparation Gap
What higher education can do to mitigate disparities in precollege readiness.
How the Arts Shifted Leftward
On the politics of modernist art and literature.
How to Make Higher Education the Engine of Opportunity, Mobility and Racial Justice
Concrete suggestions from Gary Orfield, Sandy Baum and Michael McPherson.
Combating the Commodification of Higher Education
How to make a college education less transactional and more developmental and transformational.
Combating Social Scientific Illiteracy
Let’s carve out more space in the undergraduate curriculum for social science thinking.
Let’s Apply Critical Thinking Outside the Classroom
Common sense, gut instincts, intuition and wishful thinking often lead us astray.
How History Came to Matter
We ultimately teach history not to indoctrinate or propagandize or excuse or render judgment, but to nurture understanding.