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Math Geek Mom: Snow Days
When I am asked what Economics is, I sometimes answer that it is the study of how we make decisions...
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Printing and publishing
The announcement, yesterday, that Borders Books was making its long-foreseen move into bankruptcy got me thinking. The most frequent charge...
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What Glen Retief Knows
Writer Glen Retief grew up in a South African game park during the apartheid era but emigrated to the U.S...
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False Hope
It's time to admit that some remedial education has so little chance of success that completely open admissions systems don't help anyone, writes Roy Flores.
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Long Distance Mom: Edupunk
When I first heard the word, I thought, ‘Edupunk sounds like the kind of educational strategy that my son Nick...
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Acronym Soup
This confession is really awful for an academic administrator, but it’s true. My brain has run out of space for...
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Loyalty or Desperation?
From the archives - this post was originally published at http://uvenus.org on 2010.06.30. I didn’t teach last semester (Winter 10)...
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ABC's and Ph.D.'s: Unemployed!
All good grants come to an end… and the one that has supported me half-time at the university for the...