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Making Space for Students to Take Pride in Their Writing

Pride is an important habit of mind when it comes to writing well. How often do we allow students to experience it?
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What the University of Austin Gets Right

Sure, it’s been fun to mock. But the impulse to start something new highlights the disconnect between operations and mission in postsecondary institutions.
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Something a Democrat Could Do: Cancel Student Debt

Listen to Tressie McMillan Cottom interview Louise Seamster and I think you’ll agree that this is the right thing to do, too.
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Free College or Bust

It is dismayingly shortsighted for public four-year schools to advocate against free community college.
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How Do You Know What to Run Toward?

A follow-up to a previous attempt at advice.
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Our System of Higher Education Doesn’t Make Any Sense

If access, opportunity and advancement is the mission, our current system is structured all wrong.
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If You Need to Escape: Run Toward, Not From

Some good advice I received many years ago.
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Everyone Should Read ‘Teaching Machines’

Audrey Watters has delivered a landmark book.