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A New Model?
Can a 27-year-old create a college from scratch to serve low-income students in Pittsburgh?
Opinion
Pass-Fail Option for Professors
If colleges want to encourage faculty members to innovate in teaching, they should consider a new approach to course evaluations, writes Alison Byerly.
More Than Facts and Formulas
Report concludes that deep, integrated learning, which starts in K-12 and continues through higher education, requires more attention from policy makers and institutions.
Engineering Your Degree
Flexible degrees gain popularity as students seek greater specialization in the expanding field of engineering.
Opinion
Knee-Jerk Reforms on Remediation
The conclusion that remedial education has failed is based on flawed interpretations of data and unsupported assertions, write Hunter R. Boylan and Alexandros Goudas.
Opinion
EdX Airways
Despite the high-profile buzz, elite universities’ move online won’t be what upends the higher ed market, writes Ryan Craig.
Score One for the Robo-Tutors
In a study spanning six public universities, students taught statistics mainly through software learned as much as peers taught primarily by humans. And the robots got the job done quicker.
Multiple Choice
Students in a University of Michigan political science class get to choose how they will be graded on 60 percent of their class.