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• Louis Menand and the American PhD problem

  
  I, Lamont — Authority: 410
  When reading magazines in the evening, I dont usually mark up articles with notes, highlighted sections, and other marginalia, but the most recent issue of Harvard Magazine features a book excerpt that absolutely warrants it. The excerpt  is from Professor Louis Menands forthcoming book, The Marketplace ...
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• Agricultural Education Program Listed Among Nation’s Elite

  
  Texas Tech Today — Authority: 445
  Range of programs, outstanding faculty, and the communications program in particular were listed in the study as distinguished features. Texas Tech’s Department of Agricultural Education and Communications ranked ninth, with faculty, range of programs and its communications program listed as its distinguishing ...
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• Re-visiting Perry preschool: The story behind the story

  
  EarlyStories: On Journalism, Children and Learning — Authority: 416
  study, which examined the lives of 123 African American children who were born in poverty. The study was the first of its kind to quantify the impact a high-quality preschool program had on the lives of children, and it is still widely quoted.Over the years, EarlyStories has heard countless references to the study, ...
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• Pennsylvania State University Astrobiology Summer Program (ASP) – Deadline Feb 19, 2010

  
  OSGC Educational Resources Blog — Authority: 130
  The Pennsylvania State University Astrobiology Summer Program (ASP) will be held at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA on June 6th – August 14th, 2010.Program details: There will be independent research under the guidance of one or more astrobiologists, a field trip to NASA and astrobiology-related ...
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• Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab Internships – Deadline March 31, 2010

  
  OSGC Educational Resources Blog — Authority: 130
  The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab offers science and engineering internships each summer. The program provides practical work experience and an introduction to APL. Students spend the summer working with APL scientists and engineers, conducting research, developing leadership skills, and growing ...
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• Special Issue of IRRODL

  
  iterating toward openness — Authority: 395
  The new, special issue of IRRODL on Openness and the Future of Higher Education is available now at http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/issue/view/38 . Here’s the introduction John Hilton and I wrote for the special issue: Once considered to be mostly hype, the idea of open education has spread to hundreds of ...
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• New Jerseys new pre-k agenda: What will it be?

  
  EarlyStories: On Journalism, Children and Learning — Authority: 416
  EarlyStories has been waiting for the post election stories to settle down and hoping New Jersey reporters would start tackling Governor elect Chris Christies e ducation agenda, particularly when it comes to pre-kindergarten. The Associated Press took a look at the issue in a piece that ran in Education Week, ...
  3 days ago

• NRCRES Conference: Increasing Rural 8th Graders’ Access to Algebra I: Is Online Education An Effective Alternative?

  
  Virtual High School Meanderings — Authority: 434
  The final day of The National Research Center on Rural Education Support’s Supporting Rural Schools and Communities Research Conference (see program here). The breakout session today that focused upon K-12 distance education is:8:00 – 9:45Break-Out Session IDistance Education and TechnologyChairs: Judith Meece ...
  6 days ago

• NRCRES Conference: Enhancing Distance Education In Rural Schools

  
  Virtual High School Meanderings — Authority: 434
  The final day of The National Research Center on Rural Education Support’s Supporting Rural Schools and Communities Research Conference (see program here). The breakout session today that focused upon K-12 distance education is:8:00 – 9:45Break-Out Session IDistance Education and TechnologyChairs: Judith Meece ...
  6 days ago

• NRCRES 2009: Supporting K-12 Students Online: Local schools, Virtual Schools, And Teacher Education

  
  Virtual High School Meanderings — Authority: 434
  The final day of The National Research Center on Rural Education Support’s Supporting Rural Schools and Communities Research Conference (see program here). The breakout session today that focused upon K-12 distance education is:8:00 – 9:45Break-Out Session IDistance Education and TechnologyChairs: Judith Meece ...
  6 days ago

• Assessing the value of research

  
  University Blog — Authority: 473
  I was at a function recently when I was accosted  by one of the other persons attending. How, she wanted to know, could I justify all that ‘useless research’ that was going on in my university?  She wasn’t against research – not at all, in fact: she wanted us to find the cure for cancer, the answer to ...
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• NRCRES Conference: Overview Of The Enhancing Rural Online Learning Project

  
  Virtual High School Meanderings — Authority: 434
  So, I’m sitting at The National Research Center on Rural Education Support’s Supporting Rural Schools and Communities Research Conference (see program here).  The only session today that focused upon K-12 distance education is:1:30 – 2:15EROL PresentationWallace Hannum and Matthew IrvinOverview of the Enhancing ...
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• Draft K-12 Standards Expected by Mid-December

  
  Curriculum Matters — Authority: 572
  Those of you whove been wondering when the next round of common, multistate standards would appear may want to clear some time in mid-December. Thats when the first draft of K-12 standards are likely to be unveiled, says one of the officials leading that process. Dane Linn of the National Governors Association, one ...
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• Article Title Unknown

  
  Ramblings — Authority: 103
  If you have known me for a while, I am sure you know that I am not a feminist. There are certain things that we have to live with and our gender is one of em…obviously unless u are a transgender.Talking to a lot of working women (being one of em myself), I have often [...]
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• Education And Creativity

  
  Blackinformant.com - African-American culture, news commentary, politics — Authority: 592
  Robinson summarizes his speech here. Secondly, if you have not heard of Charlotte Iserbyt, get to know her. I have her book “The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America” and it has greatly opened my eyes to the ultimate goals of our educational system. Here is a 10 min video I managed to find of her on YouTube. ...
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• Reminder: National Research Center on Rural Education Support: Supporting Rural Schools and Communities Research Conference

  
  Virtual High School Meanderings — Authority: 434
  A reminder about this event and the fact that I’ll be blogging about it while I am there – both here for the K-12 online learning entries and at Rural Education SIG for the other entries.The National Research Center on Rural Education Support is hosting the Supporting Rural Schools and Communities Research ...
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• Peer review isnt the only game in town

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  But edited collections need to innovate, if they are not to become endangered What is it that drives teenagers into anti-social behaviour? Why do they smoke, or underperform at school? Peer pressure, of course. What is it that keeps the quality of published academic work high, fostering rigour and professional ...
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• Depression, Lifestyle and Processed Food

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 605
  We know that people who are depressed don’t eat as well as people who don’t have depression. So not surprising to anyone, diet and what we eat remain linked to depression. But despite new research, we still don’t know which way the relationship goes — does diet cause depression, or do people with a certain ...
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• Google Maps Buddy

  
  Musings — Authority: 128
  There’s a couple of sites that I rely on a lot whenever I make a trip overseas: one’s Tripadvisor, and the other is Google Maps. The latter is especially handy, since for every journey I have to plan for during a trip, I like to find out first all the transportation options, timings, fares and routes to get from ...
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• AECT 2009: Time And Responsibility: Examining The Volunteer Workload Of School-based Personnel In One Distance Education Program

  
  Virtual High School Meanderings — Authority: 434
  Another AECT presentations I was involved in that I wasn’t able to post during AECT, but am posting after the fact is a roundtable session I did with Dennis Mulcahy.  You can access the slides from the roundtable at:http://www.michaelbarbour.com/research/pubs/aect-2009_mteachers.pdfThe description for the session ...
  1 week ago

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