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OER Disrupting Textbook Marketplace
Denise Wydra says New York state’s pursuit of free and inexpensive course materials is changing the traditional textbook landscape in fundamental ways.
Using Digital Storytelling to Transform Learning
Three University of Minnesota staff members write that by employing multimedia and expert sources, students consider issues from multiple viewpoints and better analyze problems and potential solutions.
Klan 2.0
In The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition, Linda Gordon emphasizes broad patterns, making the book more timely than even the headlines of the past few days would suggest, writes Scott McLemee.
The Attack on Affirmative Action Is Simple and Powerful -- and Wrong
When a simple idea clashes with one that is complicated and nuanced, often the truth loses out, argue Lisa M. Rudgers and Julie A. Peterson.
Ethical College Admissions: Who Benefits From a ‘Million-Dollar Scholar’?
Should any program encourage high school students to apply to 100 or more colleges? Jim Jump considers the issues.
Charlottesville: American Tragedy Redux
Charlottesville was yet another act in a long-running saga of racial hatred, writes Patricia McGuire, and the mobs of white men on the march have made the best possible case for affirmative action.
Why Charlottesville?
Robert M. O’Neil, a former president of the University of Virginia, considers why the protests occurred in that university town.
A ‘Distance-Traveled’ Model for College Admissions
Selective colleges should focus less on what applicants have achieved and more on what they’ve overcome to do so, Ryan Craig argues.