Active learning is a mostly meaningless educational buzzword. It’s a feel-good, intuitively popular term that indicates concern for student learning and success, but at some point we must admit that…

Proponents of rubrics champion them as a means of ensuring consistency in grading, not only between students within a class but also between instructors teaching the same class. Rubrics, they…

I teach first-year writing at a small liberal arts college, and on the first day of class, I like to talk about dessert with my students. No, really! Sure, we…