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Mothering at Mid-Career: Thinking about my students
Last month Aeron Haynie's piece on "taking students personally" hit home for me. One of the great pleasures of teaching...
Why Jing to Twitter Matters
Nobody gets the power of small pieces loosely joined better than TechSmith. I've been playing with its newest Jing feature...
An IHE Book Club?
Inside Higher Ed should start a virtual book club. This idea came to me after finishing Googled: The End of...
The Blonde Girl
On Saturday I took The Boy to a competition of various clubs of kids his age. His club was there...
'With Their Whole Lives Ahead of Them'
Last week, Public Agenda released a report exploring the reasons why only 20 percent of young adults at two-year institutions...
Quote is a Quote is a Quote is a Quote
I love a good meaningful quote and always match epigraphs to my posts. (Due to page design, you don’t see...
Friday Fragments
-- This piece in yesterday's IHE about an abortive discussion of price caps for vocational programs made me smile. Apparently...
Math Geek Mom: Discussions at a Conference
Several weeks ago, I went to my first academic conference since taking my daughter home. It was also my first...