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Unplugged for Thanksgiving
Do you plan to unplug for Thanksgiving? Will you leave the laptop at home as you travel to spend the...
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ABCs and PhDs: Kicks, kata, and kiai - life lessons from my karate kid
We were all up before the sun this past Saturday morning. My eight-year-old son was practically bouncing off the walls...
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. . . only more so
I've been troubled for some time by all the media focus on how the economy ostensibly is recovering. Consumer activity...
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Assessing NSSE
The survey of student engagement has been widely embraced as an accountability tool. But it's flawed as a measure of campus learning, Mark Schneider writes, and even weaker when used for comparing colleges.
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Teaching Governance
There's a thoughtful piece in yesterday's IHE by Terri Givens about how graduate students and new professors are socialized, or...
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Ed Tech Outside the U.S.
The degree of my ignorance of educational technology outside of the U.S. was brought home to me by how eagerly...
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Mothering at Mid-Career: Boys and Girls, again
Last week's blog post sparked some interesting conversation in the comments, both about the books I mentioned and about the...
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Cover me, I'm going over the top!
I was listening to NPR today, and heard an interview with Drew Westen (professor of psychology at Emory and author...