Teaching

As federal panel negotiates standards for teacher preparation programs, some question whether the task should be a federal responsibility at all.

Hoping to save money and improve graduation rates, Purdue announces shift from semesters to trimesters.

At MLA, literature professors consider the non-literary values behind first-year reading programs -- and how such programs play out in the classroom.

Enrollment growth in Middle Eastern language programs is slowing. For modern Hebrew, numbers are down.

Central Michigan U. professor tries improving his presentations by taking them outside the classroom, then blowing them to pieces.

When public university leaders kill programs in crucial disciplines on the basis of low enrollments, they distort the responsibilities of professors and administrators, writes Rebecca Gould.