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Lifelong Learning: Financial Matters
Can you speak mortgage-backed securities?I've been stretching myself over the last year and a half, learning all that I can about the economy. I did not take Economics in college or high school, so this study is definitely self-directed and personal...
What We Learned from the Somali Pirates?
Absolutely nothing......
Can't Stop the Tide: Same Sex Marriages and Gay Vice Squads
The culture wars dictate that there must be losers. In the battle over same sex marriages, the losers try to dictate what others must do. In this case, those folks who love each other and who want to solidify lives together. We're not talking civ...
The Threshold: College Admissions
So, the most competitive college admissions season is nearly behind us. What have we learned? What has been seen by students (and families) applying this year to college is that there is no way to know for sure how colleges make admissions' decisio...
WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT--Open Source: Narrowing the Divide between Education, Business, and Community
© 2009 Jim Whitehurst. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ ).EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 44, no. 1 (January/February 2009): 70–71.BY ...
The Big Cram for Hunter High School By JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ
Reprinted fromThe New York Times, January 2, 2009While their friends played video games in pajamas or vacationed in the tropics, a dozen sixth graders spent winter break at Elite Academy in Flushing, Queens, memorizing word roots. Time was ticking as...

