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Richard Florida on “The Long Road to Recovery”

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

Great article by Richard Florida in the new “Cities” edition of The Atlantic magazine: The Long Road to Recovery – go read it now. Not mincing words, Florida warns that this recovery could easily take a generation – up to 25 years, in other words – to kick in. Scary prospects. But what really caught […]

Follow up on Education and Homeschooling

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

This is my third post this week on education – first, there was Waiting for Superman’s inconvenient truths about education on Sept. 8, followed by some more impressions on Sept. 10, Friday odds and ends. Today’s post is a message I sent to a friend of my husband’s, who wanted some more information about homeschooling. […]

Remember the milk (on working at home)

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

The other day Philip Greenspun wrote a provocative (that is, a typically iconoclastic) article, Universities and Economic Growth. It’s well-worth reading, so click through and take a look. (h/t @KathySierra) I just want to use a small passage in that piece as a jumping off point for another observation that’s completely unrelated to Phil’s agenda. […]

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