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Beyond Merit Pay and Student Evaluations
Colleges' current methods of rewarding excellent teaching are flawed, says James D. Miller. His proposed alternative: Let students give their favorite professors cash.
Notes from the First Week Back
The Wife's birthday was this past weekend. She continues to look dramatically younger than her age, which I'll admit taking...
Teaching Free Speech in Times of War
Reading about the issues of the day, in French, offers new perspectives to students and their professor, writes Helen Solterer.
Fees
The New York Times ran a front-page article yesterday with the shocking – shocking, I say – news that colleges...
Tough Liberal
The late Al Shanker was both labor leader and ideological warrior. Scott McLemee interviews his biographer for a podcast.
Background on the New Academy, and Questions for Bill Galston
The proposed Public Service Academy would be America's "first national civilian university" dedicated to producing "leaders of character" who would...
John Emerson Churm, 1918-2007
My father holding me, Saigon, 1963.
Ask My Readers: One-Year Gigs and Undergraduate Research
A returning correspondent writes: I have been skimming the latest crop of advertisements for physicsfaculty, and every so often I...