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The Republican Party is concerned about ideological bias. Me too.

EdSurge announced this week that it closed a $400,000 seed funding round led by the Washington Post Co (owners of Kaplan University) and NewSchools Venture Fund.

This shouldn't come as any surprise to anyone reading my blog. But I explain the trauma lying just behind the lack.

It’s been a busy week in Tampa. I have been at my Florida home (instead of preparing for school in Chicago) because I am interested in witnessing the Republican National Convention (RNC) activities.

Hot off the press report -- Measuring Academic Research in Canada: Field-Normalized Academic Rankings 2012.

A new television ad from UCLA’s Extension Program ups the ante on advertising for online programs.

I finished reading Just Kids last night - Patti Smith's incredible memorial to her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe. I am grateful that she let me into her world and I recommend it to anyone who is interested in the social nature of creativity.

A recent post by Emily Ford at In the Library With a Lead Pipe asked us to think about what we do and why we do it. That’s a wonderfully clear way to ask how our philosophy of librarianship is applied in daily practice and how the things we do articulate our beliefs, for better or worse.