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Comment on Why Hard Copy Books, Magazines, and Newspapers Are Better Than E-Readers by Bill West

Bill West — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 03:44:01 +0000

Agree 100% While I enjoy technology, but at the end of the day I look forward to the simple pleasure of reading a book. I also enjoying going to old used bookstores and library booksales, it’s almost like digging for treasure, you never know what books your going to find. And I agree that there is something very “1984″ about e-books. Records of what books you purchase, as well as what newspapers and magazines you enjoy, are recorded and later used by marketing to focus new products on you via email. So one day hardcopy books may disappear, and we will all be poorer because of it.

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The tea party is found in the Whiskey Rebellion | Best Alcohol — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:36:28 +0000

[...] Accordance with quasi religious veneration movement for the American cause, these talk hard tea partyers often turn to the personalities of yore insightful quotes …(read more) [...]

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Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:40:57 +0000

[...] Keeping with the movement’s quasi-religious reverence for the American Founding, these tough-talking Tea Partyers frequently turn to famous figures of yore for pithy quotes…(read more) [...]

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Comment on Have National Education Standards Arrived? by Susan Jacoby Bungles Education Reform | Kevin R. Kosar

Susan Jacoby Bungles Education Reform | Kevin R. Kosar — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:11:53 +0000

[...] Not only were national standards developed two decades ago, a new set of “Common Core” s…. The big newspapers have been covering this latter development for over a year. How’d [...]

Comment on June 15, 2009 Story on Federal Funding of Common Standards by 2/2010 Have National Education Standards Arrived? | Kevin R. Kosar

2/2010 Have National Education Standards Arrived? | Kevin R. Kosar — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:10:19 +0000

[...] it was a savvy maneuver—have the governors (not the feds) develop standards. Meanwhile, the Obama Administration ponied up cash for the effort and hopes to encourage state adoption of the standards by awarding [...]

Comment on American Foundation for Continuing Education by Research Clips Library and Book Blog » Blog Archive » 10/2009 American Foundation for Continuing Education

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:18:15 +0000

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Comment on Mark Haddon, A Spot of Bother (NY: Random House, 2007) by Research Clips Library and Book Blog » Blog Archive » 9/2009 FICTION: MARK HADDON, THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME (VINTAGE 2004)

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:08:27 +0000

[...] Wide Web, let me beg you to read just a little bit more. Like Mark Haddon’s later effort, Spot of Bother, this novel is funny in an English way. Witness its start: It was 7 minutes after midnight. The [...]

Comment on June 15, 2009 Story on Federal Funding of Common Standards by Research Clips Library » Blog Archive » Education Policy: August 16, 2009 New York Times Story on New Federal Education Rules

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:32:30 +0000

[...] The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (P.L. 111-5; 123 Stat. 115 Division A, Title XIV), AKA the “stimulus act,” became law on February 17, 2009. It includes $4.3 billion for education. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, is using this money for a variety of purposes, including the creation of common education standards. [...]