Joan Wong

Apr 17, 2024 | chronicle.com | Erin Gretzinger |Joan Wong

Last June, Arica Brandford received an unexpected message: a pair of public-records requests for her syllabi and emails dating back to January 1, 2022. She didn’t recognize the requester — a man named Thomas Jones — and didn’t know why he was asking for emails containing these words: Asian, Caucasian, White, lynchings, racist, or racism.

Apr 10, 2024 | chroni.cl | Beckie Supiano |Joan Wong

When classes pivoted to remote instruction in 2020, some professors — even some entire colleges — moved to pass/fail grading systems. Sure, it was a short-term crisis response. But allowing pass/fail, even for a little while, demonstrated that the traditional approach to grading isn’t the only option.

Apr 10, 2024 | chronicle.com | Beckie Supiano |Joan Wong

When classes pivoted to remote instruction in 2020, some professors — even some entire colleges — moved to pass/fail grading systems. Sure, it was a short-term crisis response. But allowing pass/fail, even for a little while, demonstrated that the traditional approach to grading isn’t the only option.

Apr 1, 2024 | chronicle.com | Darrin M. McMahon |Joan Wong

Equity has become a familiar term on American college campuses in recent years, as well as a flashpoint in the nation’s culture wars.

Feb 13, 2024 | chronicle.com | Timothy Messer-Kruse |Joan Wong

When news broke this past spring that a survey of student achievement showed that only about one in five high schoolers were “proficient” in basic civics knowledge, pundits, educational specialists, and think tanks predictably warned that democracy was imperiled, and called for more-robust civics education. Such seasonal panic arrives with the regularity of El Niño — and has since civics education was first promoted in the 19th century.