by jstewardfree | Oct 22, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Charlie Wesley | As an undergraduate, I did not often annotate the texts I was assigned to read for class. Nor was I encouraged to. When I look back through the books I read as a freshman, I find they are utterly devoid of notations. A survey of my texts from...
by jstewardfree | Oct 1, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Ronald Lipsman | The grades I just issued in my post-calculus, differential equations course – a sophomore math offering taken mostly by engineering students—followed the usual bell-shaped curve, roughly 10% A’s, 20% B’s, 40% C’s, 20% D’s and 10% F’s. The...
by jstewardfree | Sep 3, 2014 | Grey Matter
The first part of this blog post ran earlier this week here. By Bryce J. Christensen | At times, the challenge to campus ideologues comes from scientists willing to bring empirical research to bear on their utopian claims. In 2000, for instance, an intrepid biologist...
by jstewardfree | Sep 1, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Bryce J. Christensen | “What an empire is in political history,” declared John Henry Cardinal Newman, “such is a university in the sphere of philosophy and science. . . . It maps out the territory of the intellect, and sees that the boundaries of each...
by jstewardfree | Aug 25, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Matthew Abrams | Education systems that incorporate human interaction and multidimensional learning are poised to change what and how we learn. While the flipped classroom, EdX, and portfolio-based learning all exemplify the tremendous evolution that is taking...
