links for 2008-06-04

By drorzel on June 3, 2008.

Confessions of a Community College Dean: Citibank to CC's: Drop Dead

A plea for a single-payer education system.

(tags: academia economics US society class-war culture)

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links for 2008-08-21

Survival Blog for Scientists ÃÂ» Blog Archive ÃÂ» Giving your new results away too soon "[W]here do you announce your results first: in the title? In the abstract? In the introduction? Or, in the results paragraph?" All three of those, plus the Conclusion. (tags: academia writing science journals…

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Confessions of a Community College Dean: Remedial Levels "[T]he CCRC found that the single strongest predictor of student success that's actually under the college's control -- so I'm ignoring gender and income of student, since we take all comers -- is length of sequence. The shorter the…

Links for 2010-05-27

Confessions of a Community College Dean: Thoughts on DIY U "Eleemosynary institutions have real and serious flaws, but they exist to empower the weak. They are necessary to empower the weak. If you rend them asunder, you will expose the weak to the predations of the strong. This is so fundamental…

links for 2007-11-22

Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed :: More Doctors of Philosophy (and Science) The number of Ph.D.'s awarded goes up, but most of the increase is among foreign-born researchers. (tags: academia US education) Confessions of a Community College Dean: Access and…

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