In the northern hemisphere, it’s now officially summer in terms of both the calendar and the school year. Those of you who are teachers often use the slower pace of summer to participate in professional development learning opportunities. Sometimes the purpose of professional development is to [read more...]
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Let’s Talk About Grade Inflation
2023-05-17In addition to rising tuition costs, inflation of a different kind is affecting education. Most of us likely know what economic inflation is. After all, it’s been dominating the news headlines for the past year or so and broadly affecting the costs of goods and services we’ve been purchasing. But [read more...]
Are the Humanities Dying?
2023-04-17It seems a week does not go by without reading or hearing about Humanities departments and majors shrinking or being phased out entirely at colleges and universities. Does the decline in those academic programs mean that the humanities are dying, in crisis, or already dead as some have postulated? [read more...]