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Welcome to the Occupation

Protest spreads from Wall Street to cities throughout the country. Scott McLemee interviews four professors who are tracking the movement.
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Moneycollege

Higher education is due for the kind of data revolution that has so changed our thinking about success in baseball, writes Ryan Craig.
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Completion Rates in Context

Holding community colleges accountable for students' degree progress is appropriate -- but only if we use the right measures, argues Craig Clagett.
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Why Occupy Colleges?

Students have good reason to express anger and to cry out for help, writes John Pelletier.
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New Higher Education Model

With state support eroding, public colleges and universities should go online to expand the reach of their academic programs, Jeb Bush and Jim Hunt argue.
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Online Higher Education's Individualist Fallacy

Champions of distance learning ignore the role that institutional culture and the classroom dynamic play in how people learn, writes Johann Neem.
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A Little History of Philosophy

Will a new series from Yale University Press aimed at young readers (and the occasional grown-up) catch fire? Scott McLemee takes a look.
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Hofstadter's 'Lost' Book

Ben Hufbauer reflects on how a textbook changed the genre, the way the public viewed American history and the way he shaped his career.