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The Next Big Thing

As a New York City public school teacher, I’ve been attending meetings for almost three decades. There’s always an urgent problem that absolutely cannot wait. Students need more test prep. Students need less test prep. Teachers must stand. Teachers must not read aloud. Teachers must sit in rocking chairs and read aloud. Students must do …

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Aaaaaaauuuuuugh! (Or, if you prefer, eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!)

From Discover Magazine online: "Their research is already yielding surprising results. Pace’s studies of residential showers have raised serious concerns that showerheads may act as delivery vehicles for bacteria that cause pulmonary disease. Dunn’s microbial transects of the American house are turning up shocking similarities between the ecosystem of your pillow and that of your …

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The Completion Agenda

These universities have signed up for Project Degree Completion, the goal of which is to increase the number of baccalaureate-degree holders by 3.8 million by 2025.  I'm sure they've thought through all of the possible consequences of a single-minded focus on increasing the number of college graduates.

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Attention Citizen Scientists!

You can help to track Zombie Bees.  Or..."ZomBees" [John Hafernik, a professor of biology at San Francisco State University, and his colleagues] have launched ZomBeeWatch.org, a citizen science project that allows people to help them track suspicious bee behavior and collect specimens. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/07/24/are-zombie-bees-infiltrating-your-neighborhood/

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