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Training Young Voters
Last week, The Wife decided that it was time to teach The Boy and The Girl about voting. She converted...
ABC's and PhD's: Gender equity in academic science?
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is a law that states: “No person in the United States shall...
Bad news/good news
First, the bad news. (And I guess the bad news could be good news, if you look at it a...
Market Failure
Why, after 30 years of deregulation, is the state bigger than ever? Scott McLemee checks out a new book on the paradox.
Second-Year Scholarships and Subsidized Slacking
Okay, I'll admit to being a sucker for certain kinds of ideas: they're usually 'what ifs' that involve upending a...
Is This How Historians Feel All the Time?
Teachers, who age while the students in their classes do not, are big on noting time’s passage. Most often this...
Fear and Humiliation as Legitimate Teaching Methods
His anthropology research leaves Alex Golub with an uncomfortable conclusion: Sometimes a "sink or swim" pedagogy makes sense.
Ask the Administrator: An Interview Curveball
A new correspondent writes: I'm currently an adjunct ESL teacher, and I just interviewed for a full-time position in my...