As 2026 approaches, make your New Year’s resolutions more meaningful, effective, and aligned with your priorities.

Another method is called collaborative grading, or ungrading, where students don’t get grades throughout the semester.

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In evaluating student work, the risks of getting AI wrong are real, but so are the rewards of getting it right.

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Revisit 2025 through the eyes of Bates photographers Phyllis Graber Jensen and Theophil Syslo. Their favorite images of the ...

Neuroscientists and productivity experts both endorse the recent TikTok trend of setting yourself a personal curriculum.

The Trump administration called on institutions to be more meritocratic in their admissions processes. But what merit is—and how exactly it should be used—remains a contentious topic in higher ed.

Trying to get students to pay attention these days can feel like a real challenge. So many things pull their focus, right?

Sleep and time are the fundamentals that make efficient learning possible. Parents can help students connect effort, habits, ...