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September 6, 2011

The Global Warming Debate on Campus

George Leef

The trouble is, on most college campuses, there is no debate. Students hear over and over that it is "settled" and thus anyone who doubts that humans are responsible for potentially disastrous clima......

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September 6, 2011

Video: Richard Shavelson on How to Rate the Quality of an Education

Andy Nash

Richard Shavelson joins Andy Nash for a conversation on measurements and metrics in figuring out the quality of an education.

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September 3, 2011

Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: OF COURSE HE DID IT!

Glenn Ricketts

Peter Wood reviews a new scholarly compendium on the relationship beteen Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings. It's a controversial topic, of course, but I'm beginning to wonder if th......

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September 2, 2011

Disrupting the Textbook Machine

David Clemens

The higher education bubble was inflated by various pumps and gases:  expensive but useless degrees, an ideological straitjacket, grade inflation, administrative bloat, and proliferating progra......

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September 2, 2011

Collegiate Press Roundup

Glenn Ricketts

Student reporters get the Fall semester rolling with observations on the national debt crisis, same-sex marriage, the vocation of college journalists and how to spend your summer break.

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