Should College Get Harder?
Around twenty years ago, when I was a graduate student in English, I taught a class in a special observation room at my university’s teaching center. My students and I sat around a long…
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Texas A&M chancellor vows disciplinary action after professor caught teaching 'gender unicorn'
Texas A&M Chancellor Glenn Hegar said Monday that the university system will take disciplinary action after an undercover video showed a professor using the "gender unicorn" in a classroom…
Democrats are teaching candidates how to use AI to win elections
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Rachel Kushner’s Advice to Writers
The novelist Rachel Kushner recently taught a class at Stanford that concerned, as the course catalogue advertised it, “the sacred art of stealing from the world.” All four of Kushner’s…
With limited job prospects at home, new grads are having better luck teaching abroad
When Ricardo Dollero graduated from UCLA last May with great grades and a robust resume of extracurriculars, he wasn’t expecting a particularly difficult job search. After majoring in…
Teaching Men Who Will Never Leave Prison
It’s 2018. I am, for the first time, in a classroom at Great Meadow Correctional Facility, in Comstock, New York, a men’s maximum-security state prison. There are sixteen students in the…
Duolingo will start teaching chess soon
Popular language learning app Duolingo is giving its bite-size lesson treatment to one of the oldest games in the world: chess. Duolingo’s chess course will take users, who can range from…
Boston Dynamics Led a Robot Revolution. Now Its Machines Are Teaching Themselves New Tricks
Reinforcement learning is a decades-old way of having a computer learn to do something through experimentation combined with positive or negative feedback. It came to the fore last decade…