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Does Not Compute
A new position statement from the National Council of Teachers of English says machine scoring of essays is easily "gamed" and can't grasp the same elements people can.
A Reviewer's Conflict
Social scientists criticize scholar who defended study on gay parenting and didn't clarify his relationship with the same-sex-marriage opponents who funded the research.
Faculty vs. Accreditor
With City College of San Francisco facing possible accreditor-mandated shutdown, faculty unions urge agency to back down, arguing that review was flawed and tainted by conflicts of interest.
Crunching Literature
Machines are "reading" novels that literary historians would otherwise never get to. Scott McLemee considers the results and prospects of "Macroanalysis."
Aid Applicants With 2 Mothers
Changes to the FAFSA will collect information on both parents in a same-sex marriage or who are unmarried but living together.
Civil Rights History
Author discusses his new book, Student Activism and Civil Rights in Mississippi.
'Alt-Ac' Realities
Graduate students in the humanities rarely intend to pursue non-faculty careers -- but with more of them doing so, new survey suggests that doctoral programs may need to change.
Humanities, Not Harvard
Disciplines that are under siege would do well to reject the models for their fields that were created by elite universities and that scare off students and the public, write Chris Buczinsky and Robert Frodeman.