Colleges want to track students and help them succeed, to find out what works in the classroom, and to measure professors' productivity. Read a special report that unpacks what big data can and can't do.
Victoria Jackson, a lecturer at Arizona State University, drew attention for her Los Angeles Times op-ed about how college athletics “contributes to the undervaluing of black lives.”
Teresa Buchanan, a former associate professor of curriculum and instruction, was fired in 2015 over complaints that, among other things, she had used obscene language in front of students.
Kellye Testy describes signs that the outlook for many law schools may be improving. The number of applications is beginning to rise again. And the current political climate has engendered more interest in law and the effect it can have on issues like immigration and social justice.
Sometimes, writes Ben Yagoda, redundant words are not only useful but powerful.
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