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Academics and the 60-Hour Work Week

A tweet and a 2014 study.
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Is Gender Bias an Intended Feature of Teaching Evaluations?

Such evaluations pretend to be the result of a neutral process but are better measures of student stereotypes than teaching effectiveness, argues Victor Ray.
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Junk-News Junkies

Oxford report renders as charts and correlations something that would otherwise go undoubted: that a well-funded and well-organized hard-right political movement has forged its own media system, writes Scott McLemee.
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President Trump Uses the Wrong Word (as Usual)

When our wordsmith in chief says community colleges should become more vocational, he may not mean what he thinks he means. But he does have a point, writes Ryan Craig.
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Does Confident Pluralism Mean Protecting Racist Views?

We have a tradition of protecting dissenting views when they violate prevailing norms. What if the prevailing norm is protecting vulnerable populations?
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We Did Not Change the World

San Francisco, technology, and higher education: 1998 to 2018.
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Friday Fragments

A narrow view of students; writing centers; youth.
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Coffee, Coffee, Coffee

Long story short, get a cheap milk frother. It is worth it.