Re:Learning -- Want to Close Achievement Gaps? Focus on Part-Time Students.

[THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION] #subscribelink [Subscribe Today]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Subscribe to The Chronicle today to get access to premium content and more.]( Re:Learning Monday, April 30, 2018 --------------------------------------------------------------- [Sign up for this newsletter]( Highlights --------------------------------------------------------------- [Want to Close Achievement Gaps? Focus on Part-Time Students.]( [premium] By Katherine Mangan When reformers focus on full-time students, too many minority students are left behind, a study finds. [What Is ‘STEM’? The Definition Is Evolving]( [premium] By Vimal Patel Recognizing the increasing presence of technology and mathematics in academic disciplines could help international students hoping to stay and work in the United States. [Why It’s Important to Protect Space for ‘the Thought We Hate’]( By Scott Carlson Julie Wollman, president of Widener University, and Jeffrey Rosen, president of the National Constitution Center, a nonprofit group, discuss how education can help people understand First Amendment rights in an age of incivility. [The Truth About Test-Optional Policies: ‘There’s Not Just One Truth’]( [premium] By Eric Hoover A new report bolsters the case that such policies, in tandem with other strategies, can help colleges enhance diversity without jeopardizing academic quality. [Goodbye Disruption, Hello Collaboration: Ed Tech Changes Gears]( The recent ASU+GSV conference suggests that education-technology companies want to work with colleges, not replace them. [Why Researchers Shouldn’t Share All Their Data]( [premium] By Nathan Schneider Too much self-exposure might compromise a career. It might also muddle one’s message. [Strada Education Network to Add Labor-Market Company Emsi to Its Portfolio]( By Goldie Blumenstyk The organization will expand its holdings to embrace a company whose services are used by more than a thousand colleges in career centers, in alumni offices, and in academic planning. [How We Can Help Students Survive in an Age of Anxiety]( By Brian Rosenberg Guns, social-media pressures, and economic uncertainty have created an epidemic of mental-health issues on college campuses. More Ed-Tech News and Commentary --------------------------------------------------------------- [Why We Must Stop Relying on Student Ratings of Teaching]( By Michelle Falkoff The internet has made course evaluations even more unreliable, which contributes to their ineffectiveness as a primary metric for faculty assessment. [They Speak English Here, and Here, and Here]( A visit to Europe reveals the omnipresence of English — and the danger of making assumptions about its universality. [Professor’s Tweets Were ‘Insensitive’ and Embarrassed Fresno State, but She Won’t Be Punished]( By Katherine Mangan President Joseph Castro says Randa Jarrar’s social-media comments in the wake of Barbara Bush’s death were protected by the First Amendment. On Teaching --------------------------------------------------------------- [Teaching and Learning]( Learn more about The Chronicle’s coverage of teaching and learning, including its weekly newsletter devoted to these issues. [View the Latest Jobs in Higher Education]( [THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION] 1255 Twenty-Third St., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20037 [Like us on Facebook]( [Follow us on Twitter]( [Add us on Google+](chroniclehighereducation/posts?elqTrackId=e00bdd6c2f3544409c72ecffafc0b686&elq=ba895f2aabf449d4bd150804d13950ee&elqaid=18885&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=8514) [Subscribe Today]( Get the insight you need for success in academe. [Stop receiving this newsletter]( Copyright © 2018 The Chronicle of Higher Education