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"Just as Ned Flanders likes Woody Allen movies except for âthat nervous fella thatâs always in them,â I like Michael Moore movies and kind of hate Michael Moore himself. "
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"Solaren corporation has signed a deal with Pacific Gas & Electric to orbit a 200 megawatt solar power satellite by 2016. I mention this not because the news is amazing (it was inevitable, really) but because their plan gives me some nice numbers to plug into my Verne gun calculations. "
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"I think most academics are less prepared or willing to talk about the cost/benefit side of these decisions. Thatâs partly because we often have restricted access to all the information needed to assess particular budgetary decisions, and so we aver having a strong opinion. Itâs partly because weâre anxious (properly) that the language of cost/benefit can easily be misused to vulgar or destructive ends, that it proposes a false equivalence between businesses and universities.
That said, in a small undergraduate college where teaching is the priority, hereâs a couple of basic cost/benefit principles about faculty work that seem to me to be very important."
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Emmy says yes, and adds that you can’t trust those dogs. Dogs who aren’t her.
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"A researcher at Ohio State University has developed a course on learning and motivation strategies that actually increases the odds that struggling first-year students will graduate.
Students in academic difficulty who took the "Learning and Motivation Strategies" course in their first quarter at Ohio State were about 45 percent more likely to graduate within six years than similar students who didn’t take the class.
Average-ability students who took the course were also six times more likely to stay in college for a second year and had higher grade point averages than those who didn’t take the class."
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"Still using Twitter."