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Outdated and Outdone
Shari Wilson explores the world of handouts that shouldn't still be handed out -- and the professors who hand them out.
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Tripping Up on the Paperwork
A federal appeals court misinterpreted the Higher Education Act -- and colleges could rue the mistake, Mark L. Pelesh argues.
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Improving Learning and Cutting Costs
Carol A. Twigg writes that colleges can use course redesign to accomplish several key goals at the same time.
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Dialectics of Disaster
After months of tsunami, hurricane, and earthquake, Scott McLemee wonders if the trouble didn't really start on November 1, 1755...
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Speaking the Heritage
A professor tries to explore the complexities of speaking Spanish in the Southwest -- and runs into unexpected roadblocks.
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Campus Justice Is Behind the Times
"Restorative justice" can help both victims and those accused of many violations of college policies, writes David R. Karp.
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A Child's Garden of Culture and Atrocity
"Whoever cannot give to himself an adequate account of the past three thousand years," said Goethe, "remains in darkness, without...