Florence Nightingale, datajournalist: information has always been beautiful | guardian.... - 13 views
Few Students Show Proficiency in Science, Tests Show - NYTimes.com - 18 views
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Only one or two students out of every 100 displayed the level of science mastery that the department defines as advanced
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a smaller proportion of American 12th graders demonstrated proficiency in science than in any other subject that the federal government has tested since 2005 — except history
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Twenty-one percent of the nation’s 12th graders scored at or above the proficient level in science on the 2009 tests, compared with 42 percent who demonstrated proficiency on the most recent economics exam, and 38 percent and 26 percent, respectively, on the most recent nationwide reading and math tests.
America on the Sidelines: The United States and World Affairs, 1931-1941 | EDSITEment - 36 views
Shared Governance Is a Myth - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 14 views
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It takes years of rank and the bittersweet experience of extensive committee service to realize that faculty influence on the operation of the university is an illusion, and that shared governance is a myth.
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Committees report to administrative officers who are at liberty to accept, reject, or substantially alter faculty recommendations.
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One would think that faculty senates exercise jurisdiction over a range of college life and policy. In reality, the right of many senates does not extend beyond making recommendations to the president, who is under no obligation to accept them.
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CK12.ORG - FlexBooks - 134 views
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Customizable, standards-aligned, free digital textbooks for K-12 - Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
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Customizable online textbooks for a variety of subjects. History is full of terrific primary sources.
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open access textbooks resources for iPad included here
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This site brings together images and viewpoints to create insights into SCIENCE and CULTURE
Thoreau - Walking - Webtext - 41 views
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When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, and submit myself to my instinct to decide for me, I find, strange and whimsical as it may seem, that I finally and inevitably settle south-west, toward some particular wood or meadow or deserted pasture or hill in that direction. My needle is slow to settle—varies a few degrees, and does not always point due south-west, it is true, and it has good authority for this variation, but it always settles between west and south-south-west. The future lies that way to me, and the earth seems more unexhausted and richer on that side. The outline which would bound my walks, would be, not a circle, but a parabola, or rather like one of those cometary orbits, which have been thought to be non-returning curves, in this case opening westward, in which my house occupies the place of the sun. I turn round and round irresolute sometimes for a quarter of an hour, until I decide for the thousandth time, that I will walk into the south-west or west. Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.
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I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east to west.
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