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Making the Most of College

Students Speak Their Minds

Richard J. Light

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ISBN 9780674004788

Publication Date: 03/19/2001

256 pages

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Richard J. Light is Professor in the Graduate School of Education and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

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At Inside Higher Ed, read Richard Light (writing with Allison Jegla) on how colleges should encourage faculty to try new approaches—and gather the data to see if they’re making tangible changes
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