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Hard Questions About Big Data
The controversy over Facebook's manipulation of data raises vexing issues for educational researchers at a time of great promise -- and risk, Justin Reich and Mitchell Stevens argue.
Leaving the System
More students are leaving higher education after their first year, according to new national numbers that are bad news for the college completion push.
Room for Creativity?
Two adjuncts discuss how they balance their creative interests with course coverage obligations.
Teaching With Tech Across Borders
As colleges look for low-cost ways to globalize the on-campus learning experience, there's increasing interest in using the Internet to connect with international classrooms.
Opinion
The Power of Grad Students
Even in challenging times for higher education, unions representing teaching assistants are achieving important victories that help many others in academe, writes Asad Haider.
Duncan on Ratings and Debt
In expansive interview about higher ed, the education secretary differentiates about dangers of varying degrees of student debt and suggests colleges might be rated based on whether they improve or not.
Adjunct v. Student
A former adjunct instructor and a student at Central Michigan U. clash over a fake Twitter account.
Fighting Their Way Back
Strokes affect hundreds of thousands of Americans each year. For professors, who make a living speaking with authority for long periods of time, the road back -- to the classroom or research or both -- is long.