Research

In Sociologists’ #MeToo Moment, Does Their Response Heed the Lessons of Social Science?

One prominent sexual-assault researcher says clear, evidence-based policies are needed but have yet to be created.

Relics

What Happened When One University Moved a Confederate Statue to a Museum

Three years ago, the University of Texas at Austin took down a campus monument to Jefferson Davis. That offers one possible solution to the question now facing the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Students

These Parents Want to Change the Frats Where Their Sons Died

A partnership, announced on Monday, brings together families and the governing organizations of the nation’s fraternities and sororities. The coalition follows months of meetings among them.

Re:Learning

‘Education Governors’ Once Roamed Statehouses. Are They Making a Comeback?

The National Governors Association thinks so. The association has found that work-force readiness, college affordability, and teacher retention are hot topics in gubernatorial races.

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Advice

Should We Continue to Cite the Scholarship of Serial Harassers and Sexists?

The process of building on academic work burnishes the reputations of people whose scholarship may be good but whose characters are awful.

Lingua Franca

How the Cold, Dead Hand of John Dryden Still Perpetuates Grammar Myths

The fiction about not ending sentences with a preposition can be traced back to the whims of one influential 17th-century writer, says Geoff Pullum. And that’s not all.