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My Take on the AP African American Studies Course Framework and the American Historical Review’s 1619 Forum
We mustn’t flinch when tough issues or heated controversies arise.
Is Teaching About Power and Privilege Education or Indoctrination?
How to teach about power, inequality, privilege, stratification and bias in ways that are fair-minded, responsible, respectful and unbiased.
How to Improve Teaching Quality and Effectiveness
Teaching awards aren’t the answer.
Can the English Major Be Saved?
Have academic professionalization and specialization harmed the study of literature?
Is Academic Scholarship Stagnating?
Nature claims that scientific papers and patents have become less disruptive. Is the same thing true across the academy, including in the humanities?
Teachers as Transformers
To make higher education transformational rather than transactional, look backward.
Pain as a Hallmark of Human Experience
Why an interdisciplinary course on pain should be added to the curriculum.