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9 hours ago ago from The Reality-Based Community
The Reality-Based Community Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. Patriots Main Jane Hamsher makes it official December 18th, 2009 Please audit me. by Andrew Sabl Kevin Carey has written a great article for Democracy about college teaching no, not an oxymoron, but too close for comfort. His basic thesis is that colleges would rather jack up prices and compete on ...
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Nina Sankovitch: Bleak Job Outlook in the Humanities Is Bad News for Everyone
13 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
A college education must include learning how to read literature: professors of language and literature teach students how to garner the pleasures, the comforts, and the knowledge contained in books of all languages and times. The news reported in the New York Times today, December 18th, that college teaching positions in literature and language are down by thirty-seven percent is really bad news for everybody. It is bad news for recent PhDs ...
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