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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…
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…
While Others Expand School Year, U.S. States Shrink It
08-22-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell Facing budget problems, over 120 school districts in 20 states have chosen to shrink the academic schedule to a four-day week. Most of the states…
Yet Another Lawsuit Against Right Wing Proposals
07-24-2011 by Linda S. Carbonell We have a crisis in the Federal judiciary because we have a shortage of judges. President Obama stopped nominating judges because every one he nominated…
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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…
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