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Thursday, September 2, 2010
Forever book stores have been that Third Place which supplements our lives at home and school or work. 0160; As Ray Oldenburg saw it, the Third Place or, as we used to call it the "hang out," provides a sense of community. 0160; We can go there and feel included, safe, and good about the world. Tomorrow R.J.
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Thursday, September 2, 2010
Trainers can be wonderfully inventive when it comes to designing activities, but awfully inhibited when it comes to transferring them online. In yesterday’s blog I promised to share a number of whiteboards with you. Those I created for a variety of different teaching and training strategies. Today Have you managed to …? Did you …?”. and so on.
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Thursday, September 2, 2010
What Brooklyn College did so wrong in assigning "common" reading to incoming students is assuming that ritual does minds and hearts good. 0160; That common reading, which has generated intense controversy, is HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE A PROBLEM? BEING YOUNG AND ARAB IN AMERICA. 0160; First-generation college, I followed orders.
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Thursday, September 2, 2010
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recently gave a speech on behalf of her late husband--his words, his witty and wry language, much of it recounting stories from their shared past. It has to be among the toughest--and most moving--speaking challenges. Slate notes : Martin Ginsburg had been invited to deliver his remarks at the 10th U.S.
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Thursday, September 2, 2010
The history of delusions captures succinctly the ethos of an age. 0160; There was a time when the off family members and friends we visited in the nut house assumed they were Jesus or of special interest to government. Now, as we witnessed yesterday, the flight from reality is taking the form of saving the planet.
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