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by Jon Marcus on The Hechinger Report, December 26, 2011. Open University, a successful British online public university to be used as a model in the U.S. The goal is to help students who are intimidated by higher education adapt to and succeed in college. Next Generation Learning Challenges, a Gates funded initiative, will adapt two free Open University, at-your-own-pace online courses for use at about a dozen U.S. colleges and universities this academic year: one to help students be more comfortable with math so they do better on placement tests or move more quickly through remedial courses, and another to teach students skills to prepare them for college.

By Stanley Milgram, as it appeared in Harper's Magazine. Abridged and adapted from Obedience to Authority by Stanley Milgram, 1974.

By Terrie E. Moffitt, Louise Arseneault, Daniel Belsky, Nigel Dickson, Robert J. Hancox, HonaLee Harrington,Renate Houts, Richie Poulton, Brent W. Roberts, Stephen Ross, Malcolm R. Sears, W. Murray Thomson,and Avshalom Caspi in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America), 2011, vol 108 (7), pp 2639-2640. Full-text PDF is available from this page.

A website "written, drawn, and coded by Matthew Inman" and made up of comics, quizzes, and stories.

This site is the "home" of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality inventory, which is used both in the workplace and to identify learning styles in students.