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For College-Age Mormons, Sexual Violence Is a Religious Problem
In 2003, Brigham Young University-Provo student Sarah* began dating Rick, a just-returned missionary and “righteous priesthood holder” with the sort of spiritual resume that would make any Mormon...
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Filling in the Blanks: The Thousands of Volunteers Who Grade Millions of AP...
Seven years ago, Tom James was de-corned. James didn’t undergo a medical procedure. Rather, the math and astronomy instructor at Chaffey High School in Ontario, California, was where he’s been every...
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Strange Situations: Attachment Theory and Sexual Assault on College Campuses
This week, when I drive away from the New England college that will be my daughter’s home for the next four years, she will be on her own in the Red Zone, the window between freshman orientation and...
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Affirmative Action Is Still Needed in Higher Education
College admissions officers across the country will soon be sorting through endless piles of applications. They will consider students’ academic achievements and extracurricular involvement, among...
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Back to School in Ferguson
This week, children are finally back in their classrooms in Ferguson, Missouri, the place I learned to go to school. A white daughter of the Midwest, and student at Walnut Grove Elementary School, my...
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A Law Professor Walks Into a Creative Writing Workshop
It started with a tip. Not an anonymous, cloak-and-dagger tip, but a tip nonetheless. The tipster told me that my writing was dull and that I should seek to improve it. The tipster: my wife—and she was...
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Um, Why Are These Professors Creeping on My Facebook Page?
It is a daily marvel to consider how deeply digital self-expression has changed the social complexion of American colleges. We need not consider elementary and secondary education—it is easy to see...
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Does the University of Illinois Care About Academic Freedom?
You’d think education would be focused on educating. Just as often, though, it’s devoted not to imparting information, but to withholding it. I’ve worked for 20 years, on and off, doing curriculum...
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The Battle Over High School Animal Dissection
Teachers knew they had a problem when photos of dissected cats began appearing on Facebook. The high schoolers were pictured posing with the dead animals. One student held up a cat’s head and pretended...
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Education Policy Is Stuck in the Manufacturing Age
As the leader of a non-profit organization that strives to help the world’s children develop vital social and emotional skills early in life, I was pleased to read this recent article about the growing...
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Veterans in the Ivory Tower
Military veterans continue to be underrepresented at America’s elite institutions, despite repeated and public pledges in their favor. Between 2011 and 2013, according to Insider Higher Ed, the number...
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How Should Universities Respond to Fake Science?
Universities are supposed to stand for the highest ideals in science and scholarship. “Our mission is to advance knowledge and transform lives,” reads Michigan State University’s mission statement, by...
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Making Classroom Learning Work for More Students
With one out of five students not finishing high school, our current models for school-based learning still aren’t working for too many of our youth. Enormous amounts of effort and money have been...
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The Criminalization of Students
“Every young person should be safe,” Bill Clinton declared to the students of Webster Groves High School in St. Louis during his 1996 re-election campaign. “I want us to be safe and secure…. I know,...
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A Public Lynching in Sproul Plaza
In one picture, a life-size paper cutout photograph of a woman hangs by a rope from a tall tree, her feet touching the top of a wall. In another, a different life-size photo effigy, this one featuring...
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