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March 23, 2010

Race Tracking

Ashley Thorne

UMass computer scientists design math tutoring software that matches students with digital coaches according to their race and ethnicity. What message does that send students?

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March 19, 2010

Inviting Intellectual Vice In

Ashley Thorne

Our universities should be cultivating intellectual virtue, writes Peter Berkowitz, but instead they are making intellectual corruption easy.

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March 19, 2010

Since When is "Liberal" a Code Word for the Right Wing?

Ashley Thorne

The Wall Street Journal picks up the Shimer College story, in which faculty complain that "liberty" and "liberal" are "code words for the right wing."

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