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How a Student-Friendly Kindle Could Change the Textbook Market
Chronicle of Higher Education - by Jeffrey R. Young - May. 6, 2009 (News Report)
Rumors that Amazon will introduce a wide-format Kindle have the news media and bloggers speculating about whether the new gadget will spark an electronic-textbook revolution ...
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Student Lending Would Change Under Senate's Budget Plan
Chronicle of Higher Education - by Kelly Field - May. 1, 2009 (News Report)
The U.S. Senate last night gave final approval to a budget blueprint that sets the stage for an overhaul of student lending.
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Books Can't Compete
Chronicle of Higher Education - by Mark Bauerlein - Jan. 23, 2009 (Opinion)
Here’s a depressing and blunt comment from Larry McMurtry, speaking not only as a novelist but as a bookstore owner (it’s an interview): The end of the culture of the ...
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The Legacy of the Bush-Cheney Years: Trends That May Linger
Chronicle of Higher Education - by Karen J. Winkler - Jan. 4, 2009 (News Analysis)
New York — For the last eight years, progressive historians have been vocally critical of the Bush-Cheney administration’s war in Iraq, war on terror, stress on free ...
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Classroom Clickers and the Cost of Technology
Chronicle of Higher Education - by Michael Bugeja - Dec. 2, 2008 (Investigative Report)
Last spring I received an e-mail message from my university's Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching that read like an advertisement: "If you are thinking of ...
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Health Care: a Campaign Primer
Chronicle of Higher Education - by David Glenn - Oct. 9, 2008 (News Analysis)
John McCain and Barack Obama have offered proposals that would — in very different ways — reshape the landscape of American health care. The Chronicle spoke with several ...
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The Russians Are Coming
Chronicle of Higher Education - by Stephen Kotkin, Nina L. Khrushcheva, Edward Lucas, Ellen Carnaghan, Marshall I. Goldman, Sean Kay - Sep. 5, 2008 (Opinion)
When the Russian army invaded the former Soviet republic of Georgia last month, it was little surprise to many observers, who have noted for several years the increasingly ...
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Supply-Side Education
Chronicle of Higher Education - by David Glenn - Jul. 25, 2008 (Review)
"There was enormous growth in educational attainment between 1900 and 1970," Goldin says in an interview. "But after 1970, the growth in attainment became much more sluggish. ...
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For Professors, 'Friending' Can Be Fraught
Chronicle of Higher Education - by Sara Lipka - Dec. 5, 2007 (Special Report)
For all its pitfalls, Facebook can prompt meaningful exchanges. Some professors look up students who e-mail them with questions or are scheduled to come to office hours. What ...
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What We Don't Know About Gambling, but Should
Chronicle of Higher Education - by Alan Wolfe - Oct. 11, 2007 (Opinion)
Do religion and gambling both flourish wherever uncertainty exists? That, it seems to me, is a worthwhile question for scholars to ponder.
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Understanding How Tenure Decisions Are Made
Chronicle of Higher Education - by Michael Bugeja - Jul. 4, 2009 (Opinion)
Some negative promotion and tenure decisions seem predetermined the moment a newly hired scholar signs a job contract. Chalk it up to a bad institutional match: The job ...
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Colleges Using Technology to Recruit Students Try to Hang On to the Conversation
Chronicle of Higher Education - by Sara Lipka - May. 2, 2009 (Special Report)
With social media, anyone can chime in. Colleges that were once occupied with staying on message are warily opening up to the e-masses—and trying to get used to that.
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Progressive Patriotism
Chronicle of Higher Education - by Warren Goldstein - Nov. 17, 2008 (Comment)
I was listening to my local NPR station when the host asked, "Is there a new progressive patriotism in America?" Calls flooded in proclaiming a resounding Yes, and I began ...
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New-Media Scholars' Place in 'the Pool' Could Lead to Tenure
Chronicle of Higher Education - by Andrea Foster - May. 30, 2008 (News Report)
Re:Poste, a Web application that encourages academics to pick apart online articles from the mass media, is only in its infancy. But the program has already generated buzz on ...
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How Did Honor Evolve?
Chronicle of Higher Education - by David P. Barash - May. 21, 2008 (Special Report)
people are, at least on occasion, inclined to do things that are detrimental to their personal benefit so long as their actions are sufficiently beneficial to the larger ...
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Israeli History at 60
Chronicle of Higher Education - by Carlin Romano - May. 13, 2008 (Review)
No history of Israel's origins, however, can achieve definitive status for now. While Israel routinely declassifies much state material after 30 years, the Arab states that ...
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The Incomplete Revolution
Chronicle of Higher Education - by Bruce J. Schulman, Julian E. Zelizer - Mar. 18, 2008 (Opinion)
The reality of "conservative" America is that the federal government remains a large presence in American life. When disasters strike, we turn to government. When we retire, ...
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Fears for Democracy in India
Chronicle of Higher Education - by Martha C. Nussbaum - May. 18, 2007 (Opinion)
While Americans have focused on President Bush's "war on terror," Iraq, and the Middle East, democracy has been under siege in another part of the world. India -- the most ...
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