Cover Story
School Reform Fails the Test
How can our schools get better when we’ve made our teachers the problem and not the solution?
by Mike Rose
Articles
Habits of Mind
Why college students who do serious historical research become independent, analytical thinkers
by Anthony Grafton and James Grossman
What I Have Taught—and Learned
After 50 years as a professor, I understand that my job is to make students think hard about thinking
by William M. Chace
Remains
Donald Hall, a former poet laureate of the United States, died on June 23 at age 89. This essay about life on Eagle Pond Farm in New Hampshire, where Hall lived and worked for more than 40 years, appeared in our Winter 2015 issue.
by Donald Hall
Traveling Corpse
How an American sergeant’s journey through frigid North Russia inspired a work of historical fiction
by Andrea Barrett
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Editor's Note
Letter From …
Tuning Up
Arts
Works in Progress
Back Talk
Commonplace Book
Book Reviews
Persecution Complex
A young Bolshevik revolutionary's unlikely and bloody rise to power
