Teaching

The long-lasting unequal outcomes in higher education -- especially among Latino, black, Native American and underserved Asian-American students -- are evidence that we haven't made needed changes in the classroom, writes Estela Mara Bensimon.

By Estela Mara Bensimon

After a year of protests nationwide, one university is trying to be clear about what students should expect.

U.S. Senator Ron Johnson, Republican in a tight re-election battle, says quality documentaries could replace many instructors, and blames tenured professors for preserving the "higher education cartel."

Graduates of the most selective institutions earn more -- even when controlling for factors that earlier made some doubt such findings -- but maybe not as much more as many think.

Jay Sterling Silver offers what he thinks is the real argument against laptops in the classroom.

By Jay Sterling Silver

Author of the 1988 book Profscam, conservative talk radio host Charles Sykes, discusses his new book that again takes on higher education.

My dissertation influences my teaching not so much through its content but by the lessons I learned writing it, says Peter Wayne Moe.

By Peter Wayne Moe

When students focus their attention on grades and how they are performing, learning may not result, writes Joseph Holtgreive.

By Joseph Holtgreive