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Education


  • 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.


  • 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.”