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Grading Smarter, Not Harder
Historians discuss efforts to evaluate student learning far beyond a grade.
Opinion
‘Diploma Mill’
Scott McLemee reviews Diploma Mill: The Rise and Fall of Dr. John Buchanan and the Eclectic Medical College of Pennsylvania by David Alan Johnson.
‘Why They Can’t Write’
Author discusses his new book about “killing the five-paragraph essay” and other ways schools and colleges could do a better job of teaching writing.
The Dismal (and Too Elitist?) Science
Economists and discipline's main association face criticism that the field's power centers are a small number of top departments. Grad students, meanwhile, push for standards of conduct.
Patterns of Student Protest
College leaders often aren't the top hindrance to campus protests that have proliferated in recent years -- holiday breaks, finals week and graduation tend to be the biggest challenge for student activists.
Opinion
Casting Public Imagination for the Evolving Major
A decline in the English major is a crisis not of marketing but rather of public imagination, argues Jennifer Clifton.
Opinion
The Health of the English Major
Kent Cartwright examines some of the strengths and weaknesses of the English major and reports that the news is not all bad.
The In-and-Out List
A look at what happened in 2018 and what’s to come in 2019 with Inside Higher Ed’s seventh annual in-and-out list.