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Assessment as Marketing
In a conversation last week with a big muckety-muck, I realized that there are two fundamentally different, and largely opposed...
MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL
Why [do] people who [know] Dr. Bishop only through reading about her crime make excuses for her? Jonathan D. Moreno...
Tech and Individualized Learning?
The comments to my 2/11 blog post on "learning styles and tuition dollars" were really great. Commentators really took me...
I have seen the face of evil . . .
. . . and it is, in truth, apparently banal. Oh, it's kind of new-tech, in a 21st century social-networking-becomes-social-engineering...
The Toxic Workplace Test
I've come up with a one-question quiz to determine whether your workplace is toxic. 1. When Smith attacks Jones in...
A tuition rate only an economist could love
A major story in last Tuesday’s Inside Higher Ed was that Middlebury College “will plan its budgets each year by...
School at $30 an Hour
This past week our kids spent a day at the Killington Superstars ski and snowboard program. $180 for six hours...
What Constitutes a Safe World?
Thanks to everyone who commented on last week’s post. As always, every comment made me think. I’m especially grateful to...