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A mobile phone displays the poster for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey.
Opinion

Homer Is Having a Resurgence—but You Wouldn’t Know It in Higher Ed

Popular demand for The Odyssey couldn’t be higher, even as classics departments find themselves targeted for cuts.

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Opinion

Don’t Wave the White Flag on Reading Just Yet

I spent part of my summer trying to explain to college students why they should read. Here’s what I found.

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Opinion

What Are Your Students Learning in Their Summer Internships?

They may well be absorbing subtle lessons about workplace injustices. They need opportunities to reflect on them.

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Opinion

Law Schools Are Asking the Wrong Question About AI

The more interesting one is not about academic integrity. It’s about what it means to assess professional competence in a fast-changing field.

The names of programming languages like C#, Java and Python are overlaid against a laptop being used for coding.
Opinion

The End of the ‘Learn to Code’ Era

It’s no wonder students are walking away from computer science: We told them the wrong story. Here’s the right one.

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Opinion

Stop Telling Students Computer Science Is Dying

The data says otherwise.

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Opinion

The Value and the Values of College

Higher ed is about values formation, but not in the way its critics mean.

An ovenbird warbler sits perched on a tree branch.
Opinion

Why Study English?

Here’s how we should answer.