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Mary: There’s been a lot of discussion this week about the new book Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses, and The Chronicle released its own study of writing requirements, based ...

Ryan Miller was a strong math student in high school. So when it came time to pick electives for his economics degree at Arizona State University, he felt pretty confident signing up for physics. It ...

While Lamar Jackson and Jabrill Peppers stole the show this college football season, at his best, Christian McCaffrey remained one of the single most dynamic players in the sport. After a slow start, ...

This blog post is part 1 of 2. Teaching has gone online, and all classes are mandatory pass-fail where I teach at Williams College. Some professors seem to be making their classes harder now. I’ve ...

Teaching has gone online, and all classes are mandatory pass-fail, where I teach at Williams College. Some professors seem to be making their classes harder now. I’ve been thinking about this a lot. I ...