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States Receiving Waivers From “No Child Left Behind”
This past week, Vermont’s Secretary of Education, Armando Vilaseco, was explaining the stagnant scores in Vermont’s standardized “No Child Left Behind” exams. Quite simply, he said, it is because each…
Happy Birthday, Charles Dickens – Now Get An Editor!
Charles Dickens was born two hundred years ago today. He only lived to be 58, not uncommon in his time. He was a brilliant observer of the human condition and…
Are Digital Textbooks The Way To Go?
The explanation for why college textbooks are so expensive is simple. The books are very big, requiring a lot of paper, and very few of them are sold at…
Tucson Bans Books By Minority Writers
The Spanish used to have a phrase to describe the American version of Spain’s history in the New World – “la leyenda negra,” the black legend. It referred to the…
World War II Pilot Endows Flight Nurse School
My Dad had a favorite maxim: “You can take over the world with a clipboard and an air of authority.” He had two stories from World War II to illustrate…
AAUW Seeks Women For College Governments
The numbers are impressive. Women outnumber men on our college and university campuses by a 3 to 2 ratio. The gender gap when one looks at non-traditional students is even…
Obama Effectively Ends No Child Left Behind
And a yabba-dabba-do to that! No Child Left Behind has been a failure from the beginning. It set national testing criteria without a national curriculum. It punished schools for failing…
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I’m a Model, Not a Sex Symbol!: Adventures in Nude Modeling
It’s true. I model nude. I’m also not a sex symbol, or a twig, or unfed, or in magazines, or on a runway. I model nude for art classes in…
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