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Quote: Is College Worth It? Clearly, New Data Say – NYTimes.com
From the article: It’s important to emphasize these shortfalls because public discussion today — for which we in the news media deserve some responsibility — often focuses on the undeniable fact that a bachelor’s degree does not guarantee success. But of course it doesn’t. Nothing guarantees success, especially after 15 years of disappointing economic growth…
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Graduation: the reality check that stings
Joey, my former boss & colleague, describes college as a place of “hyper community,” one that sets up unrealistic expectations for how the world will work once you’re out. It takes a while to transition out of that world into the reality of adult life, trying to forge new friendships with co-workers and neighbors and…
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around this time, a few years ago….
…. I was celebrating my 18th birthday, having just graduated from high school. This photo is rare for a few reasons. One, the reality of anyone over the age of 15, every photo from my pre-digital age is still packed in a box somewhere. So I have to resort to bootleg pictures-of-a-picture taken with my cellphone…
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Quotable: How Not to Talk About Purity | RELEVANT Magazine
By using metaphors that objectify women and girls, we are following the example set by our larger society. While we may not be plastering up images of Victorias Secret models, we are placing the bodies of girls, and with that, the value of their virginity, onto a pedestal. We are reducing women to objects, which…
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Get out your pencils, everyone.
Hm. I’d had a hunch this was true, just based on my own classroom observations. There’s a new study out that suggests writing lecture/meeting notes by hand ends up helping you remember them better: Mueller and Oppenheimer started by having subjects watch a lecture on a screen, and assigning them to take notes either by…
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