February 2012
33 posts
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ofanotherfashion:
Maybe the most stylish librarian ever - check out that fascinator! Lucille Baldwin Brown was the first Black public county librarian in Tallahassee, Florida. This photograph is part of the collection at the State Library and Archives of Florida.
“We believe university-level education can be both high quality and low cost....”
– Udacity - Educating the 21st Century (via futureofeducation)
Politicalprof: On Populism →
politicalprof:
Populism is afoot in the land.
Populism, taken simply, is a political ideology grounded in the belief that some elite somewhere runs things for their own good, inevitably screwing the deserving groups of society. Populist movements occur when groups of people band together seeking to overthrow…
Politicalprof: True Love →
politicalprof:
True love. Is it normal is it serious, is it practical? What does the world get from two people who exist in a world of their own? Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it had to happen this way – in reward for what? For nothing. The light…
“On August 23, 1860, the Philadelphia Public Ledger covered an unusual exchange...”
– Kali N. Gross. (2006) Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910. Duke University Press, 72.
(via james-bliss)
The disadvantages of an elite education →
An elite education not only ushers you into the upper classes; it trains you for the life you will lead once you get there. I didn’t understand this until I began comparing my experience, and even more, my students’ experience, with the experience of a friend of mine who went to Cleveland State. There are due dates and attendance requirements at places like Yale, but no one takes them very...
A Design Team Rebrands the Teaching Profession -... →
futureofeducation:
Could ditching the ubiquitous apples, one-room schoolhouses, and other uninspiring iconography associated with the teaching profession help reframe the way we think about educators? That’s the goal of Teach, a rebranding effort by New York City-based design firm Hyperakt to create “a new visual vocabulary” that more accurately reflects the sophisticated work 21st century...
put love on hold: r0bertbrowniejr: Yesterday my... →
blurintofocus:
r0bertbrowniejr:
Yesterday my mom posted a picture on Facebook of my 5 year old brother Sam wearing a pair of shoes he picked out for his first day of preschool.
She explained to him in the store that they were really made for girls. Sam then told her that he didn’t care and that…
Click and read, click and read. Although perhaps the part where he was most excited they were...
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Thatawkwardmomentwhen...
…the instant you open your eyes in the morning you realize exactly what you did wrong in your data entry. You are both happy to have figured it out (thanks subconscious!) and sad because you now have to go find the survey forms and match the gender variable up with each response item and you have no idea what you’re doing and the data is due in 5…4.75 hours. Oh. :(
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“There is less mobility in the work force because the computers are not simply...”
– The Bifurcated Society (via courtenaybird)
