thewhipple: The children are our future, which is pretty damn …
Written by admin on November 29, 2009 – 6:15 pm -“I came to see that the text alone is not enough,” Hirsch said to me recently at his Charlottesville, Virginia, home. “The unspoken—that is, relevant background knowledge—is absolutely crucial in reading a text .” Hirsch’s big work of literary …. Finally, one of the students broke the news: the education faculty had repeatedly warned them not to take the course Read the original post: thewhipple: The children are our future, which is pretty damn … Read More →
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What's Going to Happen to Textbooks? | The Atlantic Wire
Written by admin on November 29, 2009 – 9:02 am -Textbooks Are Expensive Philosophy professor John Holbo complains about the price of favorite textbooks , and writes that he is revising the syllabus for his class to include cheaper books , even though they are of poorer quality. “There is such a thing as charging too much,” he declares to Oxford University Press, telling “anyone at [the company] who might be reading” that they have “lost a course adoption.” Academics Should Publish Cheaply–On A Kindle! … Read more from the original source: What's Going to Happen to Textbooks? | The Atlantic Wire Read More →
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Philosophy and Physics - With Both Hands - Trait Substitution
Written by admin on November 27, 2009 – 11:10 pm -Taking classes at Holy Apostles, there are these suggested course outlines they give you in the syllabus : read this chapter this week, and watch this lecture, so forth. Trying to follow these basically set me up for failure. … Read more from the original source: Philosophy and Physics - With Both Hands - Trait Substitution Read More →
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Computer Training at Lang Gung Village
Written by admin on November 27, 2009 – 3:22 pm -She also had her friend Duc, who installed the computer at the library and donated some books with her. I remember he made a beautiful speech about how that computer would bring all the knowledge available to Hanoi University students to that little .. View original here: Computer Training at Lang Gung Village Read More →
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PRCA 3339 PR Publications Syllabus
Written by admin on November 27, 2009 – 1:55 pm -The open- book , multiple-choice RATS will be administered via GeorgiaVIEW prior to you coming to class, so that our class time can be more focused. More here: PRCA 3339 PR Publications Syllabus Read More →
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The Legacy of Home: Professor In A Box Accounting Course
Written by admin on November 27, 2009 – 1:17 pm -As soon as they were old enough to read and do math (7 or 8 years old), I ran out and bought them each a shiny new “cash” book from the local drug store. I showed them where the “credits” and the “debits” needed to go. … View original here: The Legacy of Home: Professor In A Box Accounting Course Read More →
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In the Middle: Flash Review: King Artus
Written by admin on November 27, 2009 – 10:26 am -Once you come out of your food coma, and once you’ve read Michael O’Rourke’s review below, you may have to start compling next semester’s syllabi . If you’re teaching comp lit, particularly if you’re at a school like mine, … have followed his own footnote and rendered “This is the history of Sir Lancelot” as “These are the days of the generations of Sir Lancelot”; the text gestures towards the meaning of Lancelot’s name with “is it not written in the book concerning him? Read more: In the Middle: Flash Review: King Artus Read More →
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Problems, Cases and Materials on Evidence (Law School Casebook …
Written by admin on November 26, 2009 – 10:29 am -If you plan on taking a problem-oriented approach to evidence in your next course , use the casebook that set and continues to refine the standard, Green, Nesson, and Murray’s Problems, Cases, and Materials on Evidence, Third Edition. … This entry was posted on Thursday, November 26th, 2009 at 11:29 am and is filed under Books . More here: Problems, Cases and Materials on Evidence (Law School Casebook … Read More →
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Matthew Yglesias » The High Price of Scholarship
Written by admin on November 25, 2009 – 1:16 pm -I was really glad that many of my professors realized this was a problem and did the same thing that John Holbo did, changed their syllabus so that purchasing course materials was not needed. Probably saved me a couple … Original post: Matthew Yglesias » The High Price of Scholarship Read More →
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text books online | College Textbooks Online
Written by admin on November 24, 2009 – 10:55 pm -Were can I buy the cheapest text books online? I am looking exactly for General Chemistry by Raymond Chang (5th ed.) ISBN:0073311855 Investigating Originally posted here: text books online | College Textbooks Online Read More →
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