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Where Are the Student Voices?

Too many community college reforms ignore the low-income youth and adults who will be most affected, write Tara Watford, Vicki Park and Mike Rose.
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Toward A Science of Learning

Colleges need to harness their own research expertise to focus on how students advance or fail to do so, writes Diana Chapman Walsh.
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Money, Money, Money

Challenging economic times require us to think about how educators spend, in the short term and the long term, writes Alexandra W. Logue.
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Scholarly Reportage: Fad or Movement?

A group of academics is reaching the public with a mix of scholarship, memoir and journalism that might be seen as a movement, writes Richard Greenwald.
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Our Zombies, Ourselves

A new book considers the international policy implications of a siege by the cannibalistic undead. Scott McLemee aims for the head.
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Who Is Really Adrift?

Educators shouldn't be so quick to embrace a critique of colleges that is based on a narrow testing tool, writes Robert J. Sternberg.
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Toughen NCAA Standards for Freshmen

Academic scandals involving athletes have been a predictable outcome of the 2003 elimination of minimum requirements for freshmen, Gerald S. Gurney argues.
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Ready for the Transfer Wave?

Economic and social factors are reshaping the market for transfer students, and colleges must better understand who they are and what motivates them, writes Marc Cutright.