"Academics" Blogs & Blog Posts

Francesca Gino, a Harvard professor already alleged to have used fabricated data in her ethics research, is also now accused of plagiarism. Passages from a paper and two books by Gino originally appeared in other works, including student theses and b...

Angry billionaire Bill Ackman was an outspoken critic of Harvard president Claudine Gay, identifying examples of plagiarism in her work as evidence she was unfit for academia. Sadly for Ackman, Business Insider reports a similar pattern of uncredited...

The Wall Street Journal reports that billionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein transferred $270,000 on behalf of famed academic Noam Chomsky and paid $150,000 to Leon Botstein, president of Bard College. From Yahoo News's summary of the paywalled ar...

The ban, set by the nation's largest school district, could help set precedent around the country as educators speak out against the technology.

Academic data shows gay boys outpace their male peers and women's academic advantages mostly apply to straight women.

This pandemic has provided parents with a grab-bag of things to worry about on any given day. There’s the obvious concern about our children (or ourselves, or their grandparents) actually contracting the virus. There is the toll that isolation may...

“Practice makes perfect” was never a very good saying. Let me tell you—I practiced playing the clarinet a lot as a kid, and then even more as a teenager, and I never got anywhere near perfect. The sentiment, though, that we only get better at a...