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The Private High School Option
Eliza Woolf considers the advantages of teaching outside the college setting -- and how to get such a position.
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Stop Defending the Liberal Arts
Mary Crane cares deeply about disciplines that feel under attack, but thinks they would be better served by focusing on improving them.
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"Old" Habits Meet a "New" Normal
Despite a slight rise in state revenues, the 2011 budget cycle is likely to be the most difficult yet of...
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No Country For Serious Students
I see the change in some of my first-year college students as the semester progresses. The once energetic, curious, wide-eyed...
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'On Second Thought'
Wray Herbert's engaging On Second Thought: Outsmarting Your Mind's Hard-Wired Habits has three main messages: 1. Evolved Brains: Our minds...
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The Furor Over the Claims on Chinese Mothers
When a reader sent me this link I thought at first that I had accessed the Onion. It’s not that...
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IHE Post To Be Published in German
A German book publisher, having read my essays at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and no doubt hearing of my growing fame...
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Displacement
I promised last week that this week I would write a blog on privacy. The academic blog I intended to...