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Is TED Making Us Stupid?
I'm not trying to pay homage to Nicholas Carr and his new book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing...
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More on 'Frills' vs. 'Serious Subjects'
The responses to last week’s column have resonated with me in an especially intense way this week. Before returning to...
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Financial Literacy
What's the best way to convey meaningful lessons in financial literacy to 18 year olds? I'm consistently struck at the...
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My For-Profit Biases
I received a few e-mails this week from people who work in the online for-profit sector, following my offer to...
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Math Geek Mom: The Normal Distribution
Imagine a number line, extending in both directions infinitely. Above this line we might graph bars that represent the proportion...
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Reading for aught
Next year is the 50th anniversary of the original (French language) publication of Frantz Fanon's classic, The Wretched of the...
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You Don't Know How It Feels To Be Me
Pay my title no mind: I was listening to Tom Petty’s Wildflowers on my long drive up this short mountain...
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Motherhood after tenure: embodied teaching
Like fellow blogger, Libby Gruner, I too spent the end of the semester in a lively discussion about teaching. Several...