Scrabble tiles spelling out the word "assess"

Colleges Should Offer a Pass-Fail Option This Fall

BY KIMBERLY BERNHARDT Like many of my colleagues across the country, I am unsure whether I will be teaching face-to-face, online, or hybrid courses this fall. While I hope to adapt my teaching to whatever model is necessary to serve students, I am not confident that our current pedagogical framework—in which students work throughout the…

word "Assessment" typed on vintage typewriter

“Living Underwater”: A Tale of Assessment

POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN Like many academics, I am a devotee of crime fiction, especially of the noirish and hard-boiled varieties.  On a plane trip earlier this summer I was enjoying a collection of stories, Jewish Noir, edited by Kenneth Wishnia (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2015), when one tale leaped out as unique.  “Living Underwater,”…