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Want to watch my Master’s Degree Inquiry?  It’s streaming live at 3:30pm EST. 
I’ll be talking about the teaching I’ve been doing this past year and discussing a research project I did.  Feel free to check it out!

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http://www.ustream.tv/channel/inquiry-presentation-april-7th-2011

well today is international women’s day and it is women’s history month so this is a bit extra intriguing 

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This book by some sociologists argue that not much learning takes place in colleges.  I gotta read this book.  I really hope it is not true.  

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this article outlines how more people are taking gap years to recharge for college after a brutal and rigorous high school schedule.  

great article

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great article with lots of interesting points.  not sure if I entirely agree, but I recommend reading this nonetheless.

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alexainslie:

” … We have a lot of recent experience with breaking apart large, old, unlovely systems in the confidence of gaining great benefits at low cost. We deregulated the banking system. We tried to remake Iraq. In education, we would do well to appreciate what our country has built, and to try to fix what is undeniably wrong without declaring the entire system to be broken. We have a moral obligation to be precise about what the problems in American education are—like subpar schools for poor and minority children—and to resist heroic ideas about what would solve them, if those ideas don’t demonstrably do that.”