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In college, I used to cut out articles from newspapers and tear out the articles from magazines that I wished to keep. Later, I photocopied reports, articles, and essays. Later still, with the advent of near universally accessible computers, printers and the internet, I printed out that in which I was interested. Now I will try and just use a blog to park those dozen or so items a day that I skim, find interesting and/or aggravating, and intend to come back to later.
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- Charles
- A family man, a management consultant, a book seller and an avid reader. Committed to helping children become avid readers in turn. The great chain of reading always needs renewing.
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- Big Labor Stumbles in Wisconsin by Sean Higgins
- After Told He’s Racist, UW-M Student Rejects Furth...
- The map that shows where America came from: Fascin...
- The Meme as Meme Why do things go viral, and shoul...
- Marketing American Girlhood by Elizabeth Marshall
- Machiavelli: Still Shocking after Five Centuries b...
- Parenting, Time Use, and Disparities in Academic O...
- Social Reproduction and Child-Rearing Practices: S...
- Some Thoughts Concerning Education by John Locke
- The Parenting Gap by Richard V. Reeves, Isabel Saw...
- Violence in Chicago: A Tale of Two Cities by Noah ...
- Are Women Really Less Corrupt Than Men? by Joshua ...
- The ‘What If Failure?’ Taboo by Robin Hanson
- Have Professional Women Created a Worse World for ...
- Yes, There’s a War on Boys in Schools by Caroline ...
- Schooled in Failure? Fact or myth--teachers favor ...
- I Quit Teach for America by Olivia Blanchard
- Rigid Campus Feminism: Is It Forever? by Warren Fa...
- Fair's fair by Bart Wilson
- The Average Women Faces In Different Countries fro...
- That’s not autism: It’s simply a brainy, introvert...
- The Adult Education Market is Imploding by Mike Ca...
- The two most important numbers in American health ...
- Do American public schools really stink? Maybe not...
- Wal-Mart, "Living Wage" and Grabby Government by C...
- Trying to assess learning gives colleges their own...
- Improving Undergraduate Learning: Findings and Pol...
- Six Lies Most People Believe About U.S. Schools by...
- Is the U.S. Catching Up? International and state t...
- Yes, Patriarchy Is Dead; the Feminists Prove It by...
- Voters don’t care how women in politics look by Da...
- A Voice for Male Students by Jonathan Taylor
- Positional good concept from Wikipedia
- 101 Great Jewish Books from Tablet
- How Jeffrey Sachs failed to save Africa book revie...
- U.S. Textile Plants Return, With Floors Largely Em...
- Chart of the Day: Median income in DC vs the rest ...
- Labor's Declining Share of Income and Rising Inequ...
- The Poverty Rate: Income and Consumption Estimates...
- What Is to Blame for the Connecticut Shooting? Doe...
- Investments in Education May Be Misdirected by Edu...
- Schools, Skill, and Synapses by James J. Heckman
- The American Dream, RIP? from The Economist
- Somebody Else's Problem effect
- The real Navy Yard scandal by Charles Krauthammer
- Don't fear Common Core by Andrew Vega
- How Being Poor Makes You Poor by Paul Hiebert
- Give Back? Yes, It's Time For The 99% To Give Back...
- Miss America, Meet India’s ‘Dark’ Side by Tunku Va...
- The Tower Tragedy by Charles Bowden
- DNA Double Take by Carl Zimmer
- Coring the Big Apple by James Surowiecki
- Report Suggests Nearly Half of U.S. Jobs Are Vulne...
- How to Create Another Housing Crisis by Robert C. ...
- A New Financial History of Detroit by Walter Russe...
- Where Americans—Rich and Poor—Spent Every Dollar i...
- Is It Possible To Fit the Civil War Into a Single ...
- Our inner cities became the safest places. Let's e...
- The Rational Choices of Crack Addicts by John Tierney
- Myths Surround Breakfast and Weight by Anahad O'Co...
- How people argue with research they don’t like by ...
- Trading Privilege for Privation, Family Hits a Ner...
- Do workplace wellness programs work? by Rahul K. P...
- As College Graduates Hit the Workforce, So Do More...
- Why Generation Y Yuppies Are Unhappy by Wait But Why
- Putting Time In Perspective from Wait But Why
- The Death Toll Comparison Breakdown from Wait But Why
- School privatization is a hoax, “reformers” aim to...
- The Brogrammer Effect: Women Are a Small (and Shri...
- This doesn't compute: As more women enter scientif...
- The Mysterious and Alarming Rise of Single Parenth...
- A change in culture or a failure of memory and a g...
- Why 'Drink More Water'? by James Hamblin
- Why Is Zambia So Poor? by Michael Hobbes
- Radical Geography website
- Everything You've Ever Been Told About How You Lea...
- It Captures Your Mind book review by Cass R. Sunstein
- Record Share of New Mothers Are College Educated f...
- The Real Reason the Poor Go Without Bank Accounts ...
- Public Universities Ramp Up Aid for the Wealthy, L...
- Sinister Statistics: Do Left Handed People Die You...
- Did Demographics Cause 1970s Stagflation? by Megan...
- The Crushing Racism of Low Expectations by Liz Peek
- The Falling Man by Tom Junod
- Big Data Infographic and Gartner 2012 Top 10 Strat...
- Wealth Inequality in America video
- The Rich Get Richer Through the Recovery by Annie ...
- The Five Cognitive Distortions of People Who Get S...
- Harvard's Gender Bender by Megan McArdle
- Class Is Seen Dividing Harvard Business School by ...
- What's It Worth? The Economic Value of College Maj...
- An America where caring is as important as competi...
- Even Mathematically Literate People Become Innumer...
- Motivated Numeracy and the Enlightenment by Bryan ...
- Against Human Weakness by Bryan Caplan
- One Classroom, Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan
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