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What happens when an unstoppable force slams into an immovable object? Higher education is, if nothing else, an incredibly conservative and stable institution; in fact, no institution (except for the ...

After I published a reflection on Vice President Dick Cheney's passing, one of my former students--now at Brown University--sent me a note that stopped me cold. "Your students&rs ...

I teach my students to read Plato while their parents calculate the ROI on a philosophy degree. Seventeen years of teaching at a liberal-arts college have shown me both the beauty and limits of the ol ...

Americans don't agree on much these days, but we all seem to agree that higher education in our country is broken. The good news is that we may now see the beginning of a nationwide movement to make h ...

This fall, millions of students across the country began the school year under new "bell-to-bell" cellphone bans. Early signs are encouraging -- teachers report calmer classrooms and ...