The Wall Street Journal Education Program offers many tools to support usage of the Journal in our classes. One great tool that the Journal offers to educators is the Weekly Reviews.
Reviews are written for 16 different disciplines, including: Accounting, Business Ethics, Business Law, Economics: Macro, Economics: Micro, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Health Care Business & Policy, Hotel Restaurant Travel Management, Information Technology, International Business, Introduction To Business, Journalism and Media, Management, Marketing, and Political Science.
Each review is sent to subscribers as an email on Friday mornings. It includes summaries of each article, a listing of topics covered, and several questions related to each article. Group or research projects are sometimes offered as additional questions for professors seeking more involved classroom experiences. The reviewer frequently includes a listing of supporting articles related to the main article.
The reviews serve well as a teacher's guide for class discussion. Subscribers to the weekly reviews are provided a list of questions from which to choose or you can adapt the questions to suit your class, topical coverage, and teaching styles. Some professors use the articles immediately for current event coverage, while others save the review for when they cover that particular topic in the course or as a source of exam materials. One of my colleagues distributes reviews to her students and requires that they answer the list of questions as a writing exercise. Many instructors use the reviews as test or quiz material.
You can sign up for the Weekly Review by clicking here. Sign up for the reviews that would interest you and might apply to your classes. They are sent 39 weeks per year, including some in the summer.
Do you use the Weekly Reviews? If you would like to share any ideas, please contact me at WSJProfBlog@hotmail.com.
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