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Learning Curves: Verizon Wireless Reminds You to Silence Your Cell Phone During Class "I'm willing to put corporate logos on my PowerPoint slides if the Math Department gets to keep a decent share of the ad revenue. " (tags: academia education economics math silly) Pre-K students benefit when…
America: Too Stupid To Cook | Ruhlman.com "That one sentence crystallized the issue for me, turned my frustration from a wall into a lens. Americans are being taught that we're too stupid to cook. That cooking is so hard we need to let other people do it for us. The messages are everywhere.…
News: Questioning Endowment Losses - Inside Higher Ed "High-risk, high-reward policies heavily influenced by Wall Street helped some college endowments grow to several times their original sizes, but they also did damage to employees, local communities and the global financial system, a new…
An Open Letter to MFA Writing Programs (and Their Students) « Whatever "So, MFA writing programs, allow me to make a suggestion. Sometime before you hand over that sheepskin with the words "Master of Fine Arts" on it, for which your students may have just paid tens of thousands of dollars (or…