A recent op-ed in the Guardian, entitled “I’m not LMAO at ridiculous student emails” lodges a familiar complaint: students don’t know how to communicate with
This post is occasioned by Ben Schmidt’s wonderful tool for exploring gender differences on words used in student evaluations on RateMyProfessor. 1. RateMyProfessor is a
My piece for the Atlantic ran yesterday, on how student learning is not directly connected to exploitative labor policies. I had some interesting conversations, on
It seems a requirement that any conversation about higher education in America must begin and end with costs and economic outcomes. Along the way, our
I’m putting some finishing touches on my syllabi here the night before classes start, and I thought I would share with my blog readers a
Welcome new readers! One of the themes of this blog is how I apply my perspective as a college professor or a cognitive psychologist to
At the beginning of every college class, I hand out a syllabus. What is the purpose of this document? What is in it? How do
