This table shows the amount of time students are expected to spend on out-of-class work each week, proportional to the number of credit hours they've registered for. (Graphic by Chuck Dearden) ...

Peter Schmidt’s “Use of Part-Time Instructors Tied to Lower Student Success” (The Chronicle. November 14) made me think about my own situation as an adjunct instructor. During my first year of ...

Eleventh-grade students and teachers are spending extraordinary amounts of class time preparing for ACT, but the intense focus on test strategies and item practice is hurting, not helping, performance ...

I recently consulted with a Ph.D. student who was logging long nights and weekends in her office. I knew she was trying to revise her dissertation into a book and complete a book proposal, but I soon ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. The anxiety of high school juniors—and their parents—over taking college-entrance exams is creating a market force for the test-preparation industry. Dozens of ...

About 24 years ago, a student asked to interview me for a class assignment. He posed an interesting question: “What is the most challenging part of teaching?’ I still periodically think about this ...

I read with interest Anna Broadbent’s essay on the benefits and pitfalls of class participation grades. From my perch as a provost, former dean and former department chair, I find that the grade for ...