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12 Nations, 14 Scholars and One Big House. Scholars from 12 countries get a chance to spend a year in Montreal, and delve into social and political issues. By Katie Zezima. [New York Times: Education] —— this is interesting and seems like a very good thing to do, if a few more were started around […]

The Military-Academic Complex: Who's the Real National Champion? [InfoWar Monitor] ——- who gets what, where, how…. or perhaps you wonder why some universities end up being more 'elite' than others and wonder where the money comes from to do that?

The terrible, horrible, no good, very bad grad school question. Between the Chronicle of Higher Ed's farewell paean to the Invisible Adjunct, the current Crooked Timber thread attempting to theorize… [Critical Mass] —— If I've read it right, Erin Oconnor is leaving higher education for k-12, which actually might not be a bad deal for […]

Innovation Network. Innovation Networkhttp://www.innonet.org/ They provide program planning and evaluation consulting, training, and Web-based evaluation tools to nonprofits and funders across geographic and programmatic boundaries. They want to make evaluation accessible to all nonprofits, so they have the knowledge and skills to: * Manage their internal matters, programs, and services effectively;* Gain a stronger understanding […]

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Ashcroft Campaign Finance Investigation. The Public Integrity Section of the Department of Justice will conduct an investigation of Attorney General John Ashcroft's alleged campaign finance irregularities: The Justice Department's Public Integrity Section is reviewing allegations that Attorney General John D. Ashcroft may have violated… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime] —– shouldn't they be appointing an […]

this article in the village voice might help explain why so many young people are frustrated at college/post-college and I think we can infer why they then don't find problems with anti-education politics. it isn't the education part, it is the financial part, it is the broken dreams part, and finally it is the whole […]

A Democrat Grumbling. Why is the Kerry campaign spending precious political capital fighting this stupid battle over medals? Yes, sure the Bush campaign is trying to smear him, but they do that. They're going to do that until the election. It just seems… [Kathryn Cramer] —— you should always expect republican's to run negative campaigns, […]

Blogging at Ten Cents a Minute, the $400 Yoyo, and related contemplations. This is Duncan's” Cold Fusion Yo-Yo, made of aircraft-grade aluminum and featuring a ball-bearing axle, is one of the longest spinning yo-yos in the world. Holder of previous World Records for spin time, the Cold Fusion is capable of spin times over 10 […]