Education

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• 3-31-14
  

  The Secret Life of Teaching: Regraduating

  by Horace Dewey

  In which we see a chronicle of history born anew.

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• 3-24-14
  

  The Secret Life of Teaching: Compensation

  by Horace Dewey

  In which we see a teacher discuss the only thing more private than his sex life.

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• 3-17-14
  

  The Secret Life of Teaching: Smart Board, Dumb Teacher

  by Horace Dewey

  In which we see the advantages of technology (and its discontents).

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• 3-10-14
  

  The Secret Life of Teaching: Romantics

  by Horace Dewey

  In which a walk in the woods leads to a fishing expedition.

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• 3-10-14
  

  Can Academics Bridge the Gap Between the Academy and the Mainstream Reading Public?

  by Jim Downs

  The problem lies not with academics' prose, but rather with access to mainstream publications.

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• 3-3-14
  

  The 1980 Supreme Court Decision that Denies Union Protection to Faculty at Private Universities

  by Jean-Christian Vinel

  In Yeshiva v. NLRB, academics working at private institutions have been denied the rights that their counterparts at University of Illinois, Chicago recently exercised.

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• 3-3-14
  

  The Secret Life of Teaching: Gingerly Revising

  by Horace Dewey

  In which a student and a teacher confront their limits.

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• 2-24-14
  

  The Secret Life of Teaching: Progressive Faith

  by Horace Dewey

  In which our narrator considers the curiously broad appeal of his namesake.

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• 2-24-14
  

  The Highest-Paid University President Makes 170 Times More than the Average Adjunct

  by Lawrence S. Wittner

  An adjunct teaching a full-time load makes roughly $20,000. Robert Zimmer, president of the University of Chicago, makes $3.4 million.

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• 2-17-14
  

  Market Values Are Not MOOC Values

  by Louis Hyman and Edward Baptist

  And that's a good thing: The MOOC represents a democratic way to raise collective education.

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• 2-10-14
  

  The Secret Life of Teaching: History Day

  by Horace Dewey

  In which we gauge the political climate of homework.

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• 2-3-14
  

  The Secret Life of Teaching: Questioning

  by Horace Dewey

  In which we see a teacher annoyed by students with minds of their own.

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• 1-27-14
  

  The Secret Life of Teaching: Checking Your Self

  by Horace Dewey

  In which the ties that bind are badges of honor.

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• 1-20-14
  

  The Secret Life of Teaching

  by Horace Dewey

  The first in a series: In which we finesse the occupational hazard of keeping student names straight.

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• 12-30-13
  

  Cultivating “The Entrepreneurial Spirit” at America’s Largest University

  by Lawrence S. Wittner

  The dubious behind-the-scenes deals that have made SUNY's new "entrepreneurial" spirit.

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• 11-18-13
  

  Changing the Teaching of History, One Byte at a Time

  by Sam Wineburg

  History education is preparing students for the pre-Internet world. Here's how to bring the K-12 history classroom into the twenty-first century.

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• 11-4-13
  

  School Reform is Destroying Communities' Historic Memories

  by Mark Naison

  If school reformers have their way, the erasure of community memory will hit all public schools everywhere.

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• 10-7-13
  

  Who Really Runs American Universities? And Who Should?

  by Jim Sleeper

  Lessons in higher ed. leadership from Harvard's Derek Bok.

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• Wisconsin, NYU, and Yale are Servicing Authoritarian Regimes

  by Jim Sleeper

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• 7-31-13
  

  Report: Adjunct Historians Very Much at Bottom of the Barrel

  by David Austin Walsh

  Credit: Flickr/Derek Bridges.Adjunct history faculty face heavy workloads, low pay, and poor working conditions, according a new report prepared for the Organization of American Historians.“Adjunct and contingent faculty have a very, very desperate sense of their future,” Edward Reiner, the report's primary author, said in a phone interview. “The consensus, particularly within the humanities, is that adjuncts are treated very poorly, and most never see full-time employment.”