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November 12, 2009

Election 2008: The University's Long Shadow 2

Peter Wood

How the 2008 election illustrates the reigning narratives that guide higher education.

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November 10, 2009

Guide to Norwegian Universities Seeking to Boycott Israel

Michael Krauss

David Harris of the American Jewish Committee provides some guidance to Norwegians who want to commit covert anti-Semitism. Here's what they must do without: http://tinyurl.com/yavlgfm.

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November 10, 2009

Student Blogs: Speaking Truth to Pooh-bahs

Jonathan Bean

In a previous post, I noted how military bloggers are writing the "first pages of history." Likewise, student bloggers are offering a place to speak out against the abuses on their campuses: from of......

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November 10, 2009

'Brainy' Cult Lessons in NYC

Candace de Russy

So brain-dead is much of contemporary education that, at first blush, one might be tempted at least to give the benefit of the doubt to a "Brain Education" program in which thousands of New York Cit......

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November 10, 2009

Blue Blastoff

Ashley Thorne

A school in lower Manhattan created by the Blue Man Group believes we can't teach kids facts anymore...but we can teach them to "build a harmonious and sustainable world."

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