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Math Geek Mom: More on Maternity Leaves
Several weeks ago, I asked my readers to share their maternity leave stories with me, as I work to propose...
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Audiobooks, E-readers and Accessibility
Three cheers for the educators at Syracuse and UW Madison for refusing to purchase new Kindle's until the speech-to-text feature...
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Time and space
During the academic year at Greenback, campus buildings alternate between "occupied" and "unoccupied" status. Our energy management system is programmed...
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Eating Sustainably in College
It’s good to collect Ph.D.s—people who have them, not the degrees themselves—to make yourself look smarter at cocktail parties. “Oh...
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A New Manhattan Project
Debates over affirmative action divert attention from the need for a massive research project to understand -- and close -- the racial achievement gap, write Thomas J. Espenshade and Alexandria Walton Radford.
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Speed Tenuring
Although speed dating came along late enough that I missed it, I'll admit being fascinated by it as an intellectual...
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Can We Talk About Money?
Money has been much on my mind in recent days. We are all thinking about our work in terms of...
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ABC's and PhD's: Book club
Last week my daughter and I read the classic Bridge to Terabithia. I wouldn’t have re-read this on my own...