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A Michelangelo of Teachers

Bruce Jackson’s approach to education can serve as an example for us all, write John Mateja and Arlene Lieberman.

Improving the Quality of Education

By concentrating so heavily on graduation rates, policy makers are ignoring danger signs that the amount that students are learning in college may be declining, writes Derek Bok.

The Unabomber On-Screen

Scott McLemee reviews Manhunt: Unabomber, a dramatic miniseries about Theodore Kaczynski and his capture by the FBI.

5 Ways to Cheat on Online Exams

Michael London provides examples of creative tactics distance learners use to try to break the rules when taking exams.

Why Racial Preferences Remain Wrongheaded

Those who defend them should consider whether they’d require them indefinitely and whether such a requirement is consistent with good race relations in the country America is becoming, argues Roger Clegg.

Let's Trash Unsupported Course Requirements

Neither time or money should be wasted by requiring students to sit in large lecture halls, taking introductory-level courses from an arbitrarily-chosen bucket of courses, write Arthur "Tim" Garson Jr. and Robert C. Pianta.

A Call for Curricular Coherence

Proliferating course offerings can overwhelm and confuse students and make a college education seem like a box-checking exercise rather than a cohesive and comprehensive intellectual endeavor, argues Loni Bordoloi Pazich.

Why Chief Academic Officers Should Also Be Chief Enrollment Officers

Matthew Poslusny writes that provosts should have responsibility for both recruiting and retaining students.