I'm doing an internship in our local university library through April, and my main task is scanning their annual 'Reports To The President', a précis of college activity sent up to main campus and bound in a book, usually hard-bound. The oldest book was 1965-66, the newest that I've seen thus far is '98-99. I believe there are newer already in ( Read more... )

It's one of my two last library classes to complete my degree. It's only an Associates in Library Science, which when coupled with $4.10, will get me a kid's meal at Burger King ( Read more... )

Westcliff High School for Girls Academy did something interesting last year: they switched to Linux. Their servers, their student workstations, their faculty/staff workstations. Everything went SuSe/Gnome. And a year later, it's still going strong ( Read more... )

"Cheap student loans keep people out of the labor market. This is a dangerous spiral."
-Tucker Carlson

Out of the 'cheap labor market' since they'd be without degrees and couldn't get anything except jobs that paid really poorly, perhaps? And what kind of an interest rate did Carlson get on his loans? I understand that interest rates should be ( Read more... )

They have one of the lowest highschool graduation rates in the country, and they want to add this? They also want abstinence-only education, guaranteed to increase the teen pregnancy rate ( Read more... )

ONE student's parent complained, claiming it was pornographic. Said parent is also pressing the police to arrest the teacher, thus far the police have not arrested the teacher ( Read more... )

"This is the kind of, the kind of snobbery that we see from those who think they know how to run our lives. Rise up, America. Defend your own freedoms."
- Rick Santorum, on President Obama's (alleged) suggestion that all kids should go to college

I just listened to a podcast from NPR called Intelligence Squared, wherein (usually) four people in ( Read more... )

"I want the full portrait of evolution and the people who came up with the ideas to be presented. It's a worldview and it's godless. Atheism has been tried in various societies, and they've been pretty criminal domestically and internationally. The Soviet Union, Cuba, the Nazis, China today: they don't respect human rights...Columbine, remember ( Read more... )

Broader availability to education is a good thing. I was reading that in some third world countries that a smartphone is a lot of people's only computer, I hadn't thought about that in terms of a tech revolution ( Read more... )

"The National Institute for Literacy estimates that 47% of adults (more than 200,000 individuals) in the City of Detroit are functionally illiterate, referring to the inability of an individual to use reading, speaking, writing, and computational skills in everyday life situations. We also know that of the 200,000... approximately half have a high ( Read more... )