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Wednesday Morning Links
* I’ll be at SCMS 2013 in Chicago tomorrow, talking about War and Science Fiction in Battle: Los Angeles. I have to be back in Milwaukee that evening and Friday, but I’m hoping to meet up with some...
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Tuesday Night MOOCs and More
* 20 Things the Matter with MOOCs. * Also from Richard: What do asteroids, MOOCs, and medical records have in common? All are examples, currently in the news, of the way in which public policy in the...
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Saturday Links
* Pope Calls for Church Austerity, Wants to Focus on Poor. Meeting with journalists this morning, Pope Francis laid out his vision for the Catholic church, which includes cutting spending on ornate...
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‘The Closings Represent the Largest Group of Campuses to Be Shut Down at One...
Chicago Says It Will Close 54 Public Schools.
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…And More
* I’ve said this before: let’s have an academic decathlon. You choose a team based on whatever pedagogical criteria you want. You can choose students from public school or private, unionized teachers...
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Thursday
* National Louis, a private, nonprofit institution based in the greater Chicago metropolitan region, served about 10,000 students before the restructuring process in 2012. In addition to terminating 63...
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Wednesday Morning
* The wisdom of markets: hacked @AP Twitter account sends Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbling 150 points in a few seconds. * Handy charts reveal why you’ve never heard of most female SF authors. *...
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Friday Links! Tons of Them! Not All of Them Depressing!
* The kids are all right: the editorial in the Marquette Tribune today is anti-edX, anti-robo-graders. * MOOC as intellectual neocolonialism. Why online education is mostly a fantasy. The MOOC monster...
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Wednesday Links
* I’ve seen dumber things than a mayor offering to spend $173 million in tax money on a building for a private college that already has its pick of several arenas to play in—but not much dumber…. I...
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The First Step Is to Smash the Existing Liberal Coalition
It’s no surprise that publications like The Nation, no matter how earnest in their opposition to the worst excesses of the Clinton or Obama administrations, have been prone to paint too many segments...
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Thursday Night Links
* Portia de Rossi’s Face Isn’t Messed Up — We Are. * Netflix Is Open to More Arrested Development. Yes, please. * According to a recent Reuters article, since corporate bankruptcies have declined,...
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Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!
* Aaron’s latest Sunday Reading has a special section devoted to what’s going on in Turkey, if like me you haven’t been following as closely as you’d like. There’s lots of other good links too, of...
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All the Saturday Links
* CCSF is the Chicago of the war on higher ed. * Oregon will pilot a delayed-tuition scheme that will tax students in the university system a flat rate of 3% for the next 24 years of their earnings....
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Wednesday Links!
* Who accredits the accreditors? The U.S. Department of Education on Wednesday notified the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges that it is out of compliance in several areas...
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Monday Morning Links
* There’s always money in the banana stand: After closing 50 schools, Chicago Public Schools has proposals for 31 new Charter Schools. This is how much your kid’s school’s budget has been cut...
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End of 2013 Mega Link Dump – All Links Must Go!
* This gentleman violently inserted his finger into dozens of victims’ anuses. Sometimes his friends held guns to the victims’ heads to force them to comply. Why was he sentenced to just two years in...
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Monday Morning Links Are Visible from Space
* The schedule for the next four weeks of my Cultural Preservation course is up at the course blog. Benjamin! Fight Club! Ani DiFranco! Oh my! * Half of Sexual Abuse Claims in American Prisons Involve...
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Thursday Links! Guaranteed* Not to Bum You Out!
* Class Action: An Activist Teacher’s Handbook. * I would have thought this was still a few years off: “Faculty object to plan to replace humanities requirement with self-help course.” * The Marquette...
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Wednesday Morning!
* Man tragically unable to remember saying Barack Obama would make a great president says Hillary Clinton will make a great president. Meanwhile, the rest of us are reduced to talking about Obama’s...
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Tuesday Links!
* This is not a glitch in the system. It is the system. Readers are gullible, the media is feckless, garbage is circulated around, and everyone goes to bed happy and fed. The Year We Broke the...
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