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Buy the Batch

An ebook series puts old scholarly papers in front of new readers. Scott McLemee thinks it's a model worth emulating.

Regulate, Don't Litigate, Change in College Sports

Antitrust lawsuits could force major (and much-needed) change in commercialized college sports -- but some of the results would be bad for athletes, write Matt Mitten and Steve Ross. Congress should step in instead.

The Threat to the NCAA

A year after predicting that big-time college sports is invulnerable to legal challenges, Murray Sperber changes his mind.

Reform Intro Economics

We can't teach everything, but we can try to engage more students, and a more diverse student body, writes Clark G. Ross.

The Classroom as Arcade

The lure of the laptop is too much for many students, and university culture needs to celebrate the embodied nature of the classroom and turn off technology, Mary Flanagan argues.

Winning Combination for Whom?

Higher-income students benefit most from the extracurricular student engagements a recent Gallup-Purdue study identified, writes Lauren Schudde.

Unit Records, Risky and Wrong

The push to collect student-level data ignores the dearth of evidence that it would improve outcomes and the danger that the information would be used against young people, writes Bernard Fryshman.

Becoming Freud

A new book considers the founding father of psychoanalysis as self-made man. Scott McLemee has a look.