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Friday, March 11, 2016


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Faculty

The Many Battles of Sara Goldrick-Rab premium

By Beckie Supiano

Upset by the "vanquished" tenure system in Wisconsin, the outspoken professor is leaving for Temple University. She’ll take her activist scholarship on college affordability with her.

Admissions

Testing Companies Try to Balance Secrecy and Openness premium

By Eric Hoover

The new SAT faces an age-old problem: How to stop cheating while offering students, parents, and the curious an understanding of how the test works.

Politics

Meet the Academics Who Want Donald Trump to Be President

By Andy Thomason

Conventional wisdom says the billionaire’s support comes mostly from the poorly educated. But the scholars who intend to vote for him say they shouldn’t be discounted.

The Ticker

Accused of Harassment and Placed on Leave, Berkeley Dean Resigns

The announcement was made one day after Sujit Choudhry was placed on an "indefinite leave of absence" from the post.


Views


Vitae

Teaching With Tourette's

By Lowell Handler

Students tolerate their own bad behavior; they don’t necessarily have patience for mine.

The Chronicle Review

Abolitionism and the World It Made premium

By Steven Hahn

It was an interracial movement from the outset, and slave resistance was crucial to it, a new book argues.

Lingua Franca

Order and Chaos in English Spelling

Anne Curzan makes the case that English orthography isn't quite as much of a mess as we sometimes think it is.


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