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Bad News, Good News: Riding the RSS Roller Coaster

Browsing RSS feeds is always an adventure, yanking me around from dystopia to utopia as I go from one link...

A Good "School" Friend

Last week we had parent/teacher conferences for The Boy and The Girl. We’re lucky enough that parent/teacher conferences pretty much...

It all revolves around economics

When I was in college, it took me a long time to decide what to major in. I started thinking...

My 10 Best Audio Nonfiction Books of 2010

Audiobooks have changed my life. How often have we heard complaints that our students don't read enough? What if we...

Mothering at Mid-Career: Holiday Baking

Christmas is, for our family as for so many others, all about the traditions. But the way we observe the...

Pseu-down-ymity

When I was first thinking about starting this blog, the editors at InsideHigherEd asked whether I intended it to be...

Six months as an IHE blogger

I started writing for Inside Higher Ed this past July. With 45 posts and more than 19,000 words, it's a...

If at First You Don't Succeed...

This story about course repeaters in California struck a chord with me. We’re facing a similar question at my own...