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Žižek, Plagiarism and the Lowering of Expectations
The renowned philosopher's unacknowledged borrowing is disappointing, Hollis Phelps writes -- but are our expectations about originality and citing others' work outdated?
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.
Know a Problem to Fix It
States have chaotic lack of consistency in how they track college remediation, according to the Education Commission of the States, which seeks national standards.
Opinion
Dissertation Advisers and Their Motives
Professors need to ask themselves why they seek to supervise the work of Ph.D. students, and whose interests are being served, writes Heather Dubrow.
Digital Feedback
As colleges turn to vendors for help on retention services, one company offers a way to give positive feedback to students.
Fighting Plagiarism in Spain
U. of Granada tries to show that there is a path to assuring the integrity of student work.
Opinion
Stop Focusing on Failure
Too many colleges are focusing their analysis of student data to find the students likeliest to fail. Instead, they should identify which interventions will help which groups of students succeed, Dave Jarrat writes.
Learning to Adapt
Experiments with adaptive learning spread, particularly at large for-profits, as technology takes a wide range of sometimes overlapping forms.