I will never forget sitting down with Elijah when school began last year. As a 5th-grader, he didn’t understand the concept of multiplication. I started at the beginning, teaching him that any number ...

By trying to solve a large political problem with brute force, Harvard is biting off more than it can chew. Instead, we ...

Journal of Basic Writing, Vol. 21, No. 2 (FALL 2002), pp. 21-36 (16 pages) "Academic Discourse," "Hybrid Discourse"-these are contested terms. Recently, scholars in composition studies have begun to ...

In a time of polarization and political tensions at universities across the country, Duke alumni are joining efforts to promote academic freedom and viewpoint ...

In a free society, we strive to eliminate the punishments that make discretion a rational choice—and not glorify discretion as a virtue when it is actually a vice.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this qualitative study, the authors investigated seventh- and eighth-grade students’ participation in an elective civics course focused on ...

First-time teachers and first-time voters gearing up for the 2024 election may have only ever been exposed to toxic polarization — it’s their norm. But for those of us who’ve been in the classroom for ...