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A Biography of Plastic
Plastic: A Toxic Love Story by Susan Freinkel A Challenge: Write down every object that you use in one day...
Advocacy and academe
Climate change. Energy supply. Economic activity. Employment. Public health. Water pollution. Species die-off. Penn State. Pitt. Cornell. Research. Public funding...
Media Coverage of Global Higher Education: Only in English, Please
A few weeks ago I attended the First International World Views Conference on Media and Higher Education in Toronto. A...
What Global Rankings Ignore
Countries value universities that promote economic growth, but those who conduct international ratings are oblivious, writes Indira Samarasekera.
The Girl at 7
The Girl had her seventh birthday yesterday. TW’s parents made the journey for the occasion, and we did the whole...
Nothing Personal: How Database Licenses Make Pirates of Us All
The other day, as I was tracking down the text of a classic article in JSTOR to refer to in...
Microsoft's Mobile EDU Opportunity
Windows 7 Phone. Anyone out there have one of these bad boys in their pocket? The latest numbers I can...
Targeting, or Serving, Needy Students?
Policy makers often talk about community colleges "serving" low-income students. For-profit colleges do that, too, writes Arthur Keiser.