Teaching & Learning
Our news, opinion, and advice stories answer your questions about teaching and learning at colleges, like:
- How are instructors shaping their teaching strategies?
- What changes to teaching and learning are working?
- How instructors carve out time to focus on teaching and with their scholarship?
Pushing back
Six faculty members argue that a 2023 law mandating that general-education courses not teach “identity politics” violates their First Amendment rights.
The Review | Conversation
Steven Brint talks Trumpian dystopia, the administrator-activist alliance, and the role of higher ed’s political center.
Teaching
Professors reading AI-written prose wonder how to encourage authenticity.
The Review | Essay
When large amounts of money are involved, the classroom gets complicated.
Teaching
How one professor uses a “math memoir” assignment to give students a reference point for their own learning.
Academic Freedom
More than a third of faculty members feel like they have less of it than they did several years ago, according to two associations.
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Teaching
A yearlong series reflected on the challenges facing professors in the classroom.
Kids These Days
Accountability and test-based reforms, pandemic-era disruptions, and larger social and economic pressures have fostered ineffective habits.
The Review | Opinion
Don’t be fooled. This is a takeover.