Roland Griffiths’ Magical Profession
News Over his half-century career at the Johns Hopkins University, Roland R. Griffiths has published hundreds of papers, most of them having to do with the downsides of drugs, attempts…
Professors Have Been Urged to Adopt More-Effective Teaching Practices. Why Are Their Results So Mixed?
News Education reformers hoping to improve student outcomes have long urged professors to abandon the “transmission” model of teaching — in which an expert imparts knowledge and students absorb it…
How Criticism Actually Strengthens Rankings
News Why do college rankings endure? In a paper published last month, two German sociologists, Julian Hamann and Leopold Ringel, put forth a provocative hypothesis: that criticism ultimately strengthens rankers,…
America’s Ph.D. Production Experienced Its Steepest Drop on Record
News The number of doctorates awarded by American universities fell 5.4 percent in 2021, according to the latest Survey of Earned Doctorates, making it the steepest decline in Ph.D. production…