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.”
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