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Last Year, I Flunked Myself
"Fondly do I hope, fervently do I pray that I can figure out how well I should be doing." That's Wick Sloane's approach to community college teaching this year.
A Challenge to Gates
For all the money it is pouring into education, the foundation is missing an opportunity to make a huge difference – by bringing focus to education research, writes Garrison Walters.
Fearlessly Facing the Freshman Seminar
What's it like to be a provost, about to teach freshmen for the first time? Steve Allred shares the experience.
The Bookworm Turns
Will getting an e-reader change your life? Scott McLemee takes one step forward, two steps back....
Return to the Observatory
Jeffrey Ross writes about why he took his 9-year-old son to his alma mater, and how he tried to share the liberal arts values he learned there.
Half-Truths on a J-School
The move by the U. of Colorado to replace study of journalism with study of information should concern all who care about an informed, democratic society, writes Michael Bugeja.
The Life of the Mind
As a writer and professor, Tom Moriarty "works" while he surfs online, reads books and just thinks -- though his wife is skeptical.
Setting Quality Standards in Higher Ed
Efforts to define and measure learning and other indicators of colleges' success will fall short if they occur outside the academy and ignore the faculty, A. Lee Fritschler argues.
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