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Are We Ready to Use Wikipedia to Teach Writing?
Robert E. Cummings argues that the popular online encyclopedia -- much derided by many professors -- can provide guidance that no instructor alone can offer.
The Reader
To Kindle or not to Kindle? Scott McLemee thinks that's not really the question....
Fixing the Babel of Multi-State Licensure
States are ultimately responsible for college quality, but 50 definitions of quality are too many. It's time to cooperate on state approval of higher education, Alan Contreras writes.
Have You Visited a Middle School Lately?
Generous financial aid packages will only go so far, writes Arlene Cash. Higher education needs to get involved in the lives of disadvantaged children well before they can apply to college, she says.
Stop Avoiding the Issue of Failing Boys
If colleges want to reach more students, and foundations and lawmakers want more graduates, they need to consider the real gender gap, writes Richard Whitmire.
Let the Restoration Begin
After years of attacks on science, the election of a science-friendly president makes now the time to push for the politically unbiased use of science in education and policy making, write Joseph Karlesky, Richard Pepino and James Strick.
The Moviegoer
Whatever happened to cinephilia? Scott McLemee loses it at the movies....
Meshing Speechwriting and Budget Making
President Obama's speech last week made good on his campaign promise to elevate higher eduation's domestic priority, writes Art Hauptman. But are his budget proposals adequate to meet the lofty goals he has now established?