Interview in NYT with the author of the book I keep telling everyone to read. Continue reading at NYT.com See Also Scott Jaschik. “Majoring in
Category: Ideas
Higher Education’s Problem: Seven Red Lines, All Perpendicular, Some Green, Some Transparent
This video is a spot-on dramatization of many, many meetings I’ve participated in during my time in higher education. Despite (or perhaps because) being peopled
This is Your Brain on Pen and Paper
From Chronicle.com Continue Reading at Chronicle.com
Just Say No to the Fetish of Interdisciplinarity?
Jerry Jacobs, a Penn professor, is the kind of smart guy who I find worth listening to even when my first impression of what he
Switch Fonts, Save Ink (and dollars)
In the news over the last few days, reports about a kid whose science fair project was to compute how much the government could save
Single Sex Education, Science, and Belief
One’s scientific “spidey sense” should tingle when a report on research talks about “opponents of” and “proponents of,” but just the same, with grains and
