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Classroom Gaffes
When explaining how to prepare adequately for creative writing workshops, I ask new classes to take their peers’ work home...
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ABCs and PhD's: Stress
I snow-balled a meltdown as I hurrumphed around this evening, distressed at the resistance of my family to help out...
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Space Invaders
Like so many other public colleges, mine is reducing personnel to match reduced budgets. (To its credit, it isn't reducing...
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Setting Expectations
A new semester means a new round of student requests. Rob Weir knows what to say to students who "need an A."
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'Economy of Attention'
It is not only people living on islands who count as insular -- etymology notwithstanding. Consider a recent piece by...
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Why Carr Is Wrong About Cushing Academy
Nicholas Carr writes that he "… feel(s) sorry for the kids at Cushing Academy." Cushing is the New England prep...
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Going Public
It's time for all colleges to release an understandable report on how they measure learning, and accreditors should require such disclosure, writes Douglas C. Bennett.
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Ask the Administrator: Student Appeals
A new correspondent writes: I am Nursing faculty at a community college, in only my 2nd year in the academic...