Teaching

Coalitions of companies, colleges and research groups, funded by Gates, will develop digital courses especially aimed at improving learning outcomes for underrepresented students in gateway statistics and chemistry courses.

Students often repeat this handy phrase of praise, but we are not doing them any favors by using it in class—and we’re certainly not helping prepare them for what comes next, writes Rachel Toor.

Timothy Messer-Kruse points out (satirically) that bans on promoting “divisive concepts” can liberate professors to suppress supremacist ideas in the classroom.

Public university systems should invest in training and support for quality teaching, Félix V. Matos Rodríguez and Penny MacCormack write.

The NAACP and other civil rights groups have joined forces to target Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin’s ban on teaching inclusive history.

Overzealous activists, while usually well-meaning, can shut down one of the most important aspects of any classroom: the free and open exploration of ideas, writes Maximilian Werner.