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Better Learning With Sites and Sound
New research suggests that Web-based collaboration tools improve students' work, and that comments recorded as audio can deepen understanding.
(Not Really) Measuring Up
Biennial report on states' performance in higher ed finds small gains in college preparation and completion -- offset by socioeconomic gaps and failure to keep pace with advances by other countries.
Tenure on the Chopping Block
Kentucky community college system leaders have plan to eliminate traditional job security for all new faculty hires.
Breadth of Adjunct Use and Abuse
Non-tenure-track instructors are used more frequently and in more disciplines (and at lower pay) than is commonly thought, AFT report says.
Exception to the Rule
From the 1990s on, many colleges have increasingly relied on adjunct professors. Elon has gone from majority part timers to 74 percent tenure track -- and it's not done yet.