The proliferation of online learning tools requires us to take a closer look at how we think, teach and learn.
About The Author:
Linda Essig is Professor of Arts Entrepreneurship and Arts Management in the School of Film, Dance, and Theatre at Arizona State University and directs the ASU Arts Entrepreneurship Program, Pave. You can read her blog here and follow her on Twitter @LindaInPhoenix.
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) is among those questioning the mission of the NSF. (Bill Clark/Roll Call via Getty Images)
Congress is heading into dangerous territory as it decides what basic scientific research should be.
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Rick K. Wilson is the Herbert S. Autrey Chair of Political Science at Rice University and editor of The American Journal of Political Science.
Here's gazing at you, kid: The cast of "Girls" in New York City, May 12, 2012. (Aby Baker/Getty Images)
By taking a fresh look at popular culture, students are breathing new life into feminist theories of a generation ago.
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Jill Dolan is the Annan Professor in English, Professor of Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts, and Director of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University. Her blog, The Feminist Spectator, won the 2011 George Jean Nathan Award for dramatic criticism.
For some pundits, statistics can be an inconvenient truth. (William B. Plowman/NBC/NBC NewsWire via Getty Images)
How do bad numbers get into circulation in our political discourse, and how do they stay there, even after being refuted?
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Andrew Gelman is professor of statistics and political science and director of the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University. You can follow him on his blog as well as on The Monkey Cage.
Saint Francis of Assisi, by Spanish painter Jusepe de Ribera 1591-1652. (Photo by: Leemage/UIG via Getty Images)
Historians, like most academics, are a secular lot. Is this a bias that prevents a deeper understanding of religious history?
A Yale professor documents the ancient origins of religious singing — and causes a debate over the roots of gospel.
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Chuck McCutcheon is a freelance writer in Washington, D.C., an instructor of journalism at American University, and the author of books on politics, climate change and radioactive waste disposal. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor and other publications.
Personal accounts of the apartheid and post-apartheid years take on a therapeutic role that is both painful and necessary.
