Opinion

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By University of Venus

My semester has ended with its usual whimper.

By John Warner

About a month ago, I decided I'd had my fill of the Silicon Valley tech blogs. I can't even remember what triggered it -- a thousand different blog posts, all saying the same thing about the latest iPad probably. So I unsubscribed to all the tech blogs in my feeds. And one month later...?

By Audrey Watters

With Maria Shine Stewart out of pocket, a guest author offers an alternative point of view on kindness. Me first!

By RANT

As the academic year winds down, it's a great time to remind students of the joys of (unassigned) reading, writes Melissa Ballard.

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We have a grant-funded program designed to get students with severe educational deficits into basic skills programs, and then into “contextualized” remediation that leads into short-term employable certificates. The idea is to help folks who would normally be consigned to the economic margins to become employable at higher, if still fairly modest, levels.

By Dean Dad

Young women scientists leave academia in far greater numbers than men for three reasons. During their time as Ph.D. candidates, large numbers of women conclude that (i) the characteristics of academic careers are unappealing, (ii) the impediments they will encounter are disproportionate, and (iii) the sacrifices they will have to make are great.

By Curt Rice

How many non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) with edtech companies have you signed?

By Joshua Kim