Here’s One Writing Prof Who Gets Results
May 08, 2013 by George Leef |
To teach students how to write well, explains John Maguire, train them to use active verbs and build good sentences.
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The “Affirmative Action” Colleges Really Need
Jan 28, 2013 by George Leef |
Robert Weissberg writes for the Pope Center on how students can encourage good teaching and discourage bad teaching through operant conditioning.
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Teacher Movie Mythology and Won’t Back Down
Jan 15, 2013 by Peter Cohee |
While most movies about teachers seem mythical, the recent movie Won't Back Down is a different type of teacher movie.
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The Mind of Students
Dec 31, 2012 by Will Fitzhugh |
Students' minds are the main engines of academic work; we should try to learn what's going on inside them, argues Will Fitzhugh.
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Prager U: Free Market Morality
Nov 13, 2012 by Jason Fertig |
Is the free market morally superior or inferior to other economic systems?
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Sometimes, Teaching is Beyond Wonderful
Jun 28, 2012 by George Leef |
This is a wonderful piece on teaching.
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Signs of the Times: The Queen’s English Society Folds
Jun 27, 2012 by Glenn Ricketts |
Defending the Queen's English is a very hard sell these days.
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“Teaching as a Subversive Activity”: The Theory of Political Indoctrination
May 04, 2012 by Zombie |
Teachers have a "moral imperative" to shape students' beliefs and make them "agents for change," declared a lanugage professor at a recent Berkeley lecture.
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“Diversity”: Is There Anything It Can’t Do?
Nov 14, 2011 by John Rosenberg |
Can high scores on a nine-point "interactional diversity scale" keep students in school longer?
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What? We Were Supposed to Use Dictionaries? - No Comment
Nov 09, 2011 by Glenn Ricketts |
Sometimes small things can shed light on larger problems - consider this case, for example.
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Sentenced
Nov 08, 2011 by Peter Wood |
Peter Wood weighs Stanley Fish’s new book on how to teach college rhetoric.
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How Not to Manage Classroom Management
Oct 11, 2011 by Glenn Ricketts |
Student rudeness and uncouth classroom conduct are the stuff of legend these days, and it's frequently been covered at the Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Education, and elsewhere.
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Answering the Critics of Online Education
Aug 29, 2011 by Douglas Campbell, Shannon Lynch-McClure |
The online classroom is different from, not inferior to, the traditional classroom, argue two faculty members of an online university.
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Video: Naomi Schaefer Riley on Colleges in the Prestige (Not Teaching) Business
Aug 23, 2011 by |
Tenure and a heavy emphasis on research over teaching are among the factors that dilute contemporary higher education, says Naomi Schaefer Riley.
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Good Teaching is Especially Important for Libertarians
Jul 28, 2011 by George Leef |
Economics professor Steven Horwitz (St. Lawrence University) writes about how important it is for libertarians to be excellent teachers. "Not everyone will be the next Hayek," he writes. "Most of us will have our greatest impact… Continue Reading | Leave a Comment >
