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Strictly silos

I got a bit of a shock last week; it reminded me just how strongly the disciplinary culture rules at...

Admission to higher education in Brazil: the ENEM debacle

On November 7, 2010, 3.3 million Brazilian secondary school graduates, hoping for a place in a university, took the National...

Are colleges that expose confidential student records vulnerable to class-action lawsuits? No.

Nice try, Mr. Grande, the plaintiff's lawyer, but I don't suspect there will be any cigars. Many articles on the...

Professing While Female

Where does professors’ authority in the classroom come from? On one level the answer is simple: it comes from our...

Mapping the Terrain of Online Education

Two surveys released earlier this month add detail to the map of online education in the United States. The 2010...

Undermatching

The phrase was new to me but the concept and the consequences are very familiar. William G. Bowen, in giving...

The Sick Kid Shuffle

This weekend The Girl got hit by a nasty stomach bug, so nobody got much sleep and our Sunday plans...

Thank you, Grandma and Grandpa O'Doherty

Earlier this week, a friend and I visited the Lower East Side Tenement Museum to take the “Moore Family Tour,”...