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Monthly Archives: September 2011
Meanings: Fault vs. Responsibility
September 29, 2011 What’s the difference between finding fault and taking responsibility? According to Rick Ackerly, “Fault looks back, and responsibility looks forward.” He’s talking about how to think about the parent-teacher relationship in k-12 education. He adds, “Taking responsibility … Continue reading
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Controversy About Kindness
September 27, 2011 I rarely think that what happens at Harvard is very telling about higher education; it’s a place too rarefied and too well resourced to tell us much. But the opening of this fall semester has brought a … Continue reading
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Meanings: the Oxford Comma
September 26, 2011 When you are listing a series of items in a sentence, you separate them with commas, but should there be a comma after “and” and before the last item in a series? Most Americans are taught to … Continue reading
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Admitting the Pathologies of Admissions
September 8, 2011 Worth reading: a new report “The Case for Change in College Admissions: A Call for Individual and Collective Leadership.” It’s the summary of a conference co-sponsored by the USC Center for Enrollment Research, Policy and Practice and … Continue reading
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