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Leveraging Cognitive Dissonance to Enhance Student Learning

How to strengthen students’ critical thinking skills and metacognitive abilities.
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Closing the College Preparation Gap

What higher education can do to mitigate disparities in precollege readiness.
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How the Arts Shifted Leftward

On the politics of modernist art and literature.
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How to Make Higher Education the Engine of Opportunity, Mobility and Racial Justice

Concrete suggestions from Gary Orfield, Sandy Baum and Michael McPherson.
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Combating the Commodification of Higher Education

How to make a college education less transactional and more developmental and transformational.
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Combating Social Scientific Illiteracy

Let’s carve out more space in the undergraduate curriculum for social science thinking.
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Let’s Apply Critical Thinking Outside the Classroom

Common sense, gut instincts, intuition and wishful thinking often lead us astray.
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How History Came to Matter

We ultimately teach history not to indoctrinate or propagandize or excuse or render judgment, but to nurture understanding.