Frankie Bow

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Internet dating. It’s like being a kid in a candy store. A candy store full of poisonous snakes.

Fake profile of horrible person attracts swarms of suitors.  (However: She's cute).  Any evolutionary psychologists want to weigh in on how it's time for the human race to die out already? "It's riddled with typos. This girl clearly lacks the ability to read and write. In the opening paragraph, she kind of quotes Katy Perry …

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Grades and ethics

Jane Robbins at Inside Higher Ed asks,  Is Grade Integrity a Fairness Issue?  "It seems that when we stop looking at our own (internal) interests for raising grades [getting better evaluations, making our students look good to employers, avoiding fights with parents and grade appeals from students] it becomes harder to justify grade inflation because …

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“If you don’t have enough jobs….you cannot train your way to victory.”

  Higher ed is great.  It's a public good and a private good.  If it weren't for higher ed, I'd have to set my murder mysteries somewhere else. But training displaced workers doesn't make jobs magically appear; not only that, the time spent retraining may have been better spent looking for employment: "What is more surprising …

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