Opinion

As regular readers know, I grew up in a city with minor league baseball. As it happened, a few of the players from the years I paid attention went on later to significant major league careers; one of them even became a first-ballot Hall of Famer. (Yes, I saw him play in the minors. Even then, you could tell he’d be special.)

By Dean Dad

We need more dialog about our teaching failures, including how we define failure in the classroom.

By Lee Bessette

The techno thriller is fast becoming one of my preferred fiction genres. Zero Day is a terrific beach book (or whatever the winter February school vacation equivalent is, the time period in which I interfaced with the book).

By Joshua Kim

The last couple weekends around home have been math weekends. Not by choice, not by design, not for fun. My daughter brings home a fair amount of math homework from middle school. She’s actually pretty good at it but she doesn’t realize this, because (her words) she thinks her friends are all better than she is at doing it. To be fair, the work is hard.

By Dana Campbell

Brian C. Rathbun offers some tips to those who decide the fate of journal submissions.

By Brian C. Rathbun

Serving on committees that consider proposals to the National Institutes of Health leaves Felicia B. LeClere feeling confident in a crucial part of the scientific process.

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Bookrenter is spilling out a separate company today called Rafter, aiming to help offer universities better deliver course materials. This isn't just about finding cheaper textbooks (although that's part of it), but rather providing a technology infrastructure to help campuses better purchase, manage and distribute educational content.

By Audrey Watters

The unruly process of ‘innovation’ has long stumped analysts and advocates.

By Kris Olds