Teaching

If you want a classroom where students can speak freely and assess dangerous ideas, then you can't be a helicopter professor -- whether you’re a liberal, conservative or something in between, writes Francis J. Beckwith.

Without rigor and cohesive requirements, the liberal arts will eventually confront a future of irrelevance, argues Michael B. Poliakoff.

In the end, argues Christopher Leise, the questions should not have turned to “Who is right here?” but rather, “Who is white here?”

Books on social and racial issues get spotlight among freshman reading assignments. This year, one showing up on campus lists focuses on low-income and rural white people, J. D. Vance’s 2016 sociopolitical breakout, Hillbilly Elegy.

Carl Wieman makes an evidence-based plea for better science instruction in a new book on what might be his grandest experiment yet.

They can have unintended consequences, writes Donal O’Shea. And the trick is to find those that actually improve student learning.

Cathy Sandeen looks back at her past predictions and claims about massive open online courses to see how they’ve held up.