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Zero Correlation Between Evaluations and Learning
New study adds to evidence that student reviews of professors have limited validity.
Berkeley Resumes Palestine Course
Facing backlash and accusations of squelching academic freedom, a class is restored.
Opinion
Reclaim Your Buzzwords
Rather than shun technologies hyped by companies with grand promises, faculty members should force vendors to explain how the tools will help professors teach and students learn, Michael Feldstein argues.
Chicago Professors Fire Back
More than 150 faculty members offer new students a different view on safe spaces, trigger warnings and diversity.
Opinion
Students on the Spectrum
Only 30 percent of high school graduates with autism ever attend a two- or four-year college, but the institutions, not the students, are the problem, Elizabeth and Margaret Finnegan argue.
What Students Really Think
A new book by undergraduates at Michigan State offers teaching advice based on thousands of comments from students starting with the prompt, 'To my professor...'
England Seeks to Measure Learning
More than 70 institutions are testing different measures of student learning amid new government effort to evaluate universities on teaching quality.
Not on the Syllabus
Political science professors discuss obligation to explore current controversies in class. But they need to be ready for the student who asks, "Can't we just nuke them all?"