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Summer's Labour's Lost
My sons and I hold a recurrent discussion about the reason school lets out in early June and resumes on...
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Some Questions for Scitable
Have you checked out Scitable, a free online teaching/learning portal combining peer reviewed articles and teaching materials with social networking...
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Reunion Butterflies
My 40th (yikes!) high school reunion is coming up, and my inbox has been clogged with correspondence about it —...
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The OECD's AHELO: a PISA for higher education?
Greetings from Paris, one of the 'calculative centres' associated with the globalization of higher education. One of the key institutions...
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The $139 Kindle and the Academic Library
" If we give up on having library collections (digital or otherwise) and outsource access to and preservation of knowledge...
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Math Geek Mom: What the Jesuits taught me about being a Mom
Patterns are central to math and statistics. If we add two of something to two more of that something, we...
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Outside the Box
I never finished high school. After my sophomore year of high school, I left and went to college at age...
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Technology Appreciation Week
The Underwater Construction School at the Naval Construction Battalion (Seabee) Center in Port Hueneme, California, offered useful blocks of instruction...