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Cookie-Cutter Monsters, One-Size Methodologies and the Humanities
Poets -- and others in the humanities -- should be wary of the National Survey of Student Engagement and other assessment tools, but should also look for ways to use them that make educational and disciplinary sense, writes Anna Leahy.
Motherhood After Tenure: Does Parenting Matter?
Is it just me, or has there been a spate of publications suggesting that your child’s intelligence, personality, and future...
Things I've Learned from The Boy
A few days ago, we did a post-dinner Home Depot run. It wasn't terribly successful, and it was cold, and...
ABCs and PhDs: Recruitment
This season, the biology doctorate program in which I work had a wonderfully diverse, interesting and impressive pool of applicants...
The Fire Last Time
A new book chronicles the aftermath of the MLK assassination. Scott McLemee interviews the author.
The Bookstore Conundrum
A returning correspondent writes: As a Ph.D. student who actually purchases most of the books on the required lists, I'm...
No cold feet
Back when he was in seventh grade, my son undertook a science fair project. For 60 days he monitored the...
The Hope of Audacity
Some academics and critics may sneer at Malcolm Gladwell, but Rachel Toor celebrates the New Yorker writer's love of ideas, his entertaining and inviting writing style -- and, yes, his hair.