
Why Students Won’t Read—and What to Do about It
One of the most frustrating things that can happen in higher education is that we assign students a reading that
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“In the business of education there are no minorities, only minor thinking. For if education requires tuition but no meaning, if it is to be about nothing other than careers . . . then it can be stopped in the sixth grade, or the sixth century, when it had been mastered. The rest is reinforcement. The function of twentieth-century education must be to produce humane human beings. To refuse to continue to produce generation after generation of people trained to make expedient decisions rather than humane ones.”
—Toni Morrison, “Sarah Lawrence Commencement Address” (1988)
One of the most frustrating things that can happen in higher education is that we assign students a reading that
If we’re to believe the conversations around higher education’s proverbial water cooler, our students are coming to us with poorly
College students prefer to use suboptimal learning strategies when they study (e.g., Rinella & Putnam, 2022), which can undermine their
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