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Mapping Student Learning With Precision

In ambitious, long-term effort, West Point maps and measures a multi-layered set of outcomes across the curriculum.

Fight Over a Beloved (and Lucrative) Book

U. of Nebraska Press sold almost one million copies of Black Elk Speaks. The director moved to SUNY and now the book is moving too. Fair game or unfair edge?

Sizing Up the Spellings Commission

As education secretary's summit awaits, report from business officers' group assesses the impact of her panel on higher education.
Opinion

Waiting 20 Years for the Tenure Track

Phil Ray Jack shares the realities of long-term adjunct status -- and what it means to finally gain a permanent position.

Inflated Assessment by Phoenix?

For-profit giant releases study designed to show how much learning takes place, but were the "before" and "after" comparisons of the same group?

The Union Impact and Non-Impact

Study finds that in much of higher education, collective bargaining hasn’t stopped erosion of tenure-track lines. Community colleges may be different.
Opinion

Rankings Go Global

Kevin Carey sees flaws in the increasingly international business of rating colleges -- but also sees legitimate reasons for the comparisons.

A Test the Education Department Doesn't Love

In many quarters within American higher education, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings is viewed (unfairly, she and her supporters would argue)...