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The most important teaching I do in a course sometimes happens before we open a book, assign a reading, or discuss an idea. I was reminded of this by a recent New York Times interview with the Yale psychologist Laurie Santos, who described something every teacher recognizes at once: she walks into a seminar, finds her students seated around one table, and none of them are talking. They are on... Read More
The best and worst campuses for free speech, based on a survey of more than 55,000 students.
