Friday, November 13






Editorial: College work could keep kids in school

A recent study by the Community College Research Center at Columbia University's Teachers College found that students, especially those from low-income backgrounds, enrolled in programs incorporating college courses with their high school curriculum were more likely to earn high school diplomas, to pursue higher education and to stay in college beyond one semester. Read more...


Letters to the Editor

Statistics, linguistics courses essential For the past decade, every time I have attended a faculty meeting where a promotion case was discussed, I have had to endure talk by my colleagues about class ratings and professor ratings where no potentially intervening variables (such as class size and heterogeneity of class population) were ever statistically controlled for. Read more...