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New Standards for Evaluation: A Key to Your Grade

There has always been some ambiguity in the grading of the humanities. Until now.


Issue 18 Editors' Note

Education


Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, 2007. (Photo by EJ Vega)

Journalism for Justice

How journalism schools can be relevant in a world on the brink


(Photo by Mikes Mendoza)

The (Other) Crisis

The financial crisis displayed a new model of horizontal reporting, which could save the news industry from doom.


flavor (Photo by Anne Dailey)

The Conscious Carnivore

If I was going to eat meat, it wasn’t enough to know where it came from. I was going to have to learn how to wield the knife myself.


5 Questions Thomas Toch

Thomas Toch

Thomas Toch is the executive director of the Association of Independent Schools of Greater Washington, a co-founder of the think tank Education Sector and an all-around go-to guy on national education policy issues. We talk to him about the arms race of escalating college tuition, the difference between cost and quality, and President Obama’s grade on education policy.


art

Portrait of the Artist as a Building

The Hunter College MFA building at 41st street is a fleeting landmark of New York’s grittier past, housing a proud group of artists at the forefront of the art world’s future; but like so many other relics of weird Manhattan, it too may soon be gone.