Teaching

Paraphrasing tools, freely available online, can fool plagiarism detection software, study finds.

Collapse of undergraduate curricular reform at Duke illustrates the difficulty of building consensus on just what students need to learn.

Is an eight-to-one student-faculty ratio one to be cherished or seen as a luxury few colleges can afford? Debate at Whitman illustrates the tensions.

Being an essayist is central to, if not inseparable from, being a teacher, argues Caitlin McGill.

A changing economy and professionalization is driving an increase in education requirements for child-care workers, but there are concerns about mandating higher degrees for a field that traditionally doesn't pay well.

Teaching is a form of performance art, contends Bruce Fleming, and those watching us judge us as physical beings.

The current obsession with predictive analytics avoids tough conversations about poor instruction and outdated pedagogy, writes Dror Ben-Naim.

Institutions want to help their graduate students find meaningful work. Here's how the University of Chicago is doing it.