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Plan to Fail
Lots of students make bad decisions. Josh Wymore recounts his own -- and argues for giving them second chances.
Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism
A new graduate program aims to train the next generation of architects of the public-intellectual infrastructure. Scott McLemee has a look at some of the blueprints.
The Right FAFSA Reform
Shift from focusing on the number of questions to the number of times a student must fill out the form, writes Ben Miller.
No Easy A's
Students in teacher education programs need rigorous reviews of performance if they are to succeed in classrooms they will later lead, write Nancy Zimpher and Thomas Lasley II.
Teaching the Global 1%
Will Fenton describes what it's like to be an instructor of students who assume that everything can be bought.
A Powerful Word
Gary S. May writes about why he thinks President Obama's plan for free community college could work and why he, as an engineering dean at a research university, backs it.
A Good Idea, Not a New One
Nicholas Strohl places the idea of free community college education in the context of earlier debates about higher education policy.
Mixed Marriages
Social hierarchy is a touchy subject. Scott McLemee looks at a sociologist's study of wedding across class lines.