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No Country For Serious Students
I see the change in some of my first-year college students as the semester progresses. The once energetic, curious, wide-eyed...
'On Second Thought'
Wray Herbert's engaging On Second Thought: Outsmarting Your Mind's Hard-Wired Habits has three main messages: 1. Evolved Brains: Our minds...
The Furor Over the Claims on Chinese Mothers
When a reader sent me this link I thought at first that I had accessed the Onion. It’s not that...
IHE Post To Be Published in German
A German book publisher, having read my essays at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and no doubt hearing of my growing fame...
Displacement
I promised last week that this week I would write a blog on privacy. The academic blog I intended to...
College Is Still Worth It
Flawed data on education and jobs have inspired politicians and reporters -- wrongly -- to assert that fewer Americans need a higher education, Anthony Carnevale writes.
Editing Matters
In the latest installment of their series on writing for the academy, Carmen Werder and Karen Hoelscher discuss the importance of proofreading and editing.
How Do You Know?
This week, nearly everyone on campus has been talking about Jared Lee Loughner. Aside from the obvious shock at what...