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When
and where was America founded? Was it in Virginia in 1619, when a
pirate ship landed a group of captive Africans at Jamestown? So asserted
the New York Times in August 2019 when it announced its 1619 Project. The Times
set out to transform history by tracing American institutions, culture,
and prosperity to that pirate ship and the exploitation of African
Americans that followed. A controversy erupted, but the Times didn't back down. Instead...
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The liberal arts are dying. They are dying because most Americans don't see the point of them. Americans don't understand why anyone would study literature or history or the classics-or, more contemporarily, feminist criticism, whiteness studies, or the literature of postcolonial states-when they can get an engineering or business degree.
Even more concerning is when they read how "Western civilization" has become a term
of reproach at so many...
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"One of Forbes' Best Higher Education Books of 2020" Derek Bok is the 300th Anniversary University Research Professor at Harvard University. He served as the twenty-fifth president of Harvard from 1971 to 1991, and as interim president from 2006 to 2007. His many books include The Struggle to Reform Our Colleges, Higher Education in America, Our Underachieving Colleges, and The Shape of the River (all Princeton).
How our colleges and universities...
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Ken Bain is an award-winning teacher and the bestselling author of What the Best College Teachers Do and What the Best College Students Do. He taught as a history professor for many years, founded teaching centers at Northwestern, New York, and Vanderbilt universities, and is the president of the Best Teachers Institute. He lives in South Orange, New Jersey. Twitter @KenBain1
From the bestselling author of What the Best College Teachers Do, the...
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A New York Times–bestselling author looks at mathematics education in America-when it's worthwhile, and when it's not.
Why do we inflict a full menu of mathematics-algebra, geometry, trigonometry, even calculus-on all young Americans, regardless of their interests or aptitudes? While Andrew Hacker has been a professor of mathematics himself, and extols the glories of the subject, he also questions some widely held assumptions in this thought-provoking...
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