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Are The Humanities Really In Crisis? Seems There’s New Interest.

“Something else has happened in my courses over the past two years. I’m unsure how to describe it, except to say that I feel a newfound sense of urgency or intensity. Absences are down. Students who complete the readings—a growing number—engage with a degree of focus that sometimes puts me to shame. I’ve long had […]

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Every week I send out articles I encounter from around the web. Subject matter ranges from hard knowledge about teaching to research about creativity and cognitive science to stories from other industries that, by analogy, inform what we do as educators. This breadth helps us see our work in new ways.

Readers include teachers, school leaders, university overseers, conference organizers, think tank workers, startup founders, nonprofit leaders, and people who are simply interested in what’s happening in education. They say it helps them keep tabs on what matters most in the conversation surrounding schools, teaching, learning, and more.

– Peter Nilsson

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