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The "Teaching Effectiveness Gap"
Last week I read an article about why student evaluations of college instructors are not reliable and should not be used in performance...
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Should You Write That Letter of Recommendation?
If I were still a teaching professor, at this time of year I would have been inundated with student requests for letters of...