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Math Geek Mom: Bikes and Boo-boos

I have written before about my philosophy of learning math. I tell my students that one needs to do math...
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Measuring the wrong thing

There's an old saying among good managers: "Be careful what you measure, because that's what's going to improve." Which is...
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Long Distance Mom: Turning 45

Geez. There ain’t no denying it. Forty-five is middle-aged. Actually it’s beyond middle-aged. I’ll be darn lucky to make it...
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Unnatural Acts

Burck Smith -- though a fan of nontraditional ways to deliver instruction -- worries about deals signed by some colleges that will add to what students must pay.
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Outsourcing Grading

I have to admit getting a good laugh from this. Apparently, there's a company that employs people in India with...
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Increasing the Library Role?

Great discussion around the "Eroding Library Role?" article from 4/7. One area that I'd like to engage the library community...
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ABC's and PhD's: Eat the marshmallow!

Recently a friend of mine, a fellow PhD/stay-at-home mom, told me that she’d taken the day off. I was puzzled...
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Not a Consolation Prize

Community colleges need to be cautious before hiring Ph.D.s who haven’t been trained for teaching at two-year institutions, and unemployed doctorates shouldn’t assume they are prepared for such jobs, writes Kory Lawson Ching.