Opinion

Alexander C. McCormick writes about the problem with 'U.S. News' rankings that nobody talks about.

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The end is near: It’s time to grade the stacks of final papers, estimate student participation grades, tabulate everything and...

By Oronte

How much excitement can you take? Scott McLemee looks at some scholarly scandals that seem faintly familiar.

By Scott McLemee

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Although much that comes across the academic administrative desk shines with the bright light of pride and promotion -- expensively...

By John V. Lombardi

Adam Weinberg writes that it is time to pay less attention to numbers of students and more to what they learn and how programs are structured.

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One of Wick Sloane's community college students is shot to death. He reflects on the implications for the students and for Washington's policy experts.

By Wick Sloane

My mother and I were sitting in a booth in a J.C. Penney’s lunchroom, sometime in the late ‘60s or...

By Oronte