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• At the Chronicle of Higher Education, educator James Lang discussed his experience taking part in a multi-day “Reacting to the Past” exercise—the teaching methodology developed by Mark Carnes and explained fully in Carnes’s Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College.
• The Root’s weekly series featuring works from The Image of the Black in Western Art explored the “Black Venus” as a standard of beauty.
• Henry Roediger III, co-author of Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, wrote in the New York Times about the benefits of frequent, low-stakes quizzing (as opposed to rare, high-stakes testing) for achieving proficiency in new material.

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July 22: "No Book Is Ever Finished"

In a recent post at the Society for Scholarly Publishing’s “Scholarly Kitchen” blog, the always-astute Joseph Esposito considers the unwieldiness of “post-publication peer review” as both locution and concept. The term signals an inversion in the traditional model of scholarly publishing, which typically relies on the evaluation of materials prior to release as a critical node in the determination of a work’s suitability for publication. The post-publication peer review scheme, as Esposito explains, is developing as a means for gauging the value of a text after its publication because new models for the online publication of scholarly work may not necessarily involve rigorous pre…