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In Education Week America, Peter W. Cookson Jr. argues that we need to overhaul the U.S. Department of Education, and he has a plan for turning it into “the world’s leading research-and-development center for the creation and dissemination of 21st-century learning.” Part of that plan involves thinking globally about education. Madeleine F. Green defines global … Continue reading »

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On Course: A Review of James M. Lang’s Guide for Beginning College Teachers

James M. Lang, On Course: A Week-by-Week Guide to Your First Semester of College Teaching (Harvard University Press, 2008). Reviewed by Heidi Tworek, PhD Candidate, History Department James Lang’s On Course is an accessible and wittily-written guide to all the major aspects of the first semester of teaching. Lang takes readers through their first semester week by … Continue reading »