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1936 [lbo-talk] How Much Do College Students Learn, and Study? -- rank: 1000

On Jan 26, 2011, at 1:22 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > I've got a question for people who teach. If you give a lecture for > about an hour, how many pages would be in the transcript? I'll tell you this: my radio commentaries are about 170 words a minute (which is probably too fast, but that's New York for you). An hour of that would be about 10,000 words, which would be 25 pages of book text. Doug

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1937 [lbo-talk] How Much Do College Students Learn, and Study? -- rank: 1000

On Jan 26, 2011, at 11:48 AM, Eric Beck wrote: > If this is true, is it different from the more recent past? That's a > real question. Very few of my contemporaries (born in '69) read for > pleasure, and when they read because they had to, they didn't read > very well, it always seemed to me. > > Tentative answer: Kids read all the time. They just don't read "texts." I had classes in college where we were supposed to read 200 pages a week - and the average was 4.5 cla ...

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1938 [lbo-talk] How Much Do College Students Learn, and Study? -- rank: 1000

On Jan 26, 2011, at 11:41 AM, John Gulick wrote: > Of course, n=1 doesn't say much. I'm sure you've noticed, however, that the length of a typical post to LBO-talk has steadily diminished over the years. I'm not sure what that says. Nicholas Carr has a lot to say on this.

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1939 [lbo-talk] How Much Do College Students Learn, and Study? -- rank: 1000

On Jan 26, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Tentatively, the goal from which we must view the present is the goal of > good pay, good working conditions, and job security for _all_ teachers -- > regardless of any 'evaluations' of any one teacher. Well, yeah, I'm all for that, but my question was why don't kids today want to read? Doug

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1940 [lbo-talk] Middle Eastern revo -- rank: 1000

So who'd be a good radio guest to talk about the uprisings across the Middle East? Gotta figure this out in a hurry.

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1941 [lbo-talk] How Much Do College Students Learn, and Study? -- rank: 1000

On Jan 26, 2011, at 10:02 AM, Alan Rudy wrote: > Yup, its the teachers'/professors' fault for not mandating greater rigor > (and I know that's not what you meant to imply, Doug Now of course I don't mean that, but there really is something terrible going on, with, you know, kids today not reading. You may have noticed that thread on the Progressive Sociologists list the other week, looking for suggested excerpts from The Communist Manifesto to assign, because the full text is too long. It' ...

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1942 [lbo-talk] How Much Do College Students Learn, and Study? -- rank: 1000

On Jan 26, 2011, at 8:44 AM, Wojtek S wrote: > Not much, it seems. <http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/01/18/study_finds_large_numbers_of_college_students_don_t_learn_much> The main culprit for lack of academic progress of students, according to the authors, is a lack of rigor. They review data from student surveys to show, for example, that 32 percent of students each semester do not take any courses with more than 40 pages of reading assigned a week, and that half don't take a si ...

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1943 [lbo-talk] Mark Ames uncorks -- rank: 1000

On Jan 25, 2011, at 6:11 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > As for misery, the first and last time I was in Berlin (west) six years ago, it really struck me how downcast everybody was, and it didn't really compute because the city was spanking new, well kept up (compared to a lot of the rest of Europe)....I think people had jobs..... I dunno.... All that sausage and potatoes have consequences. Doug

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1944 [lbo-talk] Mark Ames uncorks -- rank: 1000

On Jan 25, 2011, at 4:17 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote: > On Tue, January 25, 2011 12:29 pm, Angelus Novus wrote: > >> Question for American liberal Pollyanna Europhiles: > > Have you ever lived in the US for any length of time? Or even visited, I wonder. I've been to Europe enough, and read a lot of social statistics, to know that there's just less poverty, inequality, and disease in Western Europe than there is in the USA. In many cases a lot less. Yeah, there are many sucky ...

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1945 [lbo-talk] Barry digs Ronnie -- rank: 1000

On Jan 25, 2011, at 3:52 PM, martin schiller wrote: > On Jan 25, 2011, at 12:37 PM, John Gulick wrote: > >> Can you believe what sub-par goop this speech is? It isn't worthy of sixth-graders competing in an American Legion civics contest... > > Consider the intended audience. Hey, USA Today is a lot better than many people think it is. Yeah, it's not Le Monde, but what is? Doug

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1946 [lbo-talk] Barry digs Ronnie -- rank: 1000

<http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-01-23-ronald-reagan-president-obama_N.htm> Obama: Reagan saw that 'we are all patriots' Updated 1d 13h ago | Comments 160 | Recommend 15 E-mail | Save | Print | By Barack Obama Ronald Wilson Reagan was a believer. As a husband, a father, an entertainer, a governor and a president, he recognized that each of us has the power as individuals and as a nation to shape our own destiny. He had faith in the American promise; in the importance of ...

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1947 [lbo-talk] Can I attach PDFs to LBO list? -- rank: 1000

On Jan 24, 2011, at 10:23 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > Boy, that was some fun reading today, especially the piece on Yale and the CIA. Thanks. > (Sidebar. If you want to get back that Grand Street journal look and feel, download a TeX or LaTeX page layout system I could easily match it with InDesign. I've got hundreds of fonts to play with. But Grand Street was beautifully letterpressed, not offset. I think I'll go find a copy and fondle it. Doug

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1948 [lbo-talk] help wanted -- rank: 1000

32BJ SEIU, a large NYC-based union with offices in eight East Coast states, has an opening for an assistant director in the communications department. Candidates can expect to work on a range of progressive issues, including policy and legislation affecting working families and immigrant workers, green jobs, anti-poverty initiatives, access to health care, economic development, as well as contract negotiations and organizing campaigns. Thank you for forwarding this posting to anyone who may be ...

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1949 [lbo-talk] Can I attach PDFs to LBO list? -- rank: 1000

On Jan 24, 2011, at 1:13 AM, CHRISTOPHERR CARRICO wrote: > 4 of Doug's pieces from Grand Street in the late 1980s I wanted to share. Thanks a lot for that! I've just posted them to the LBO website: http://wp.me/pqagG-en Doug

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1950 [lbo-talk] my Grand Street stuff -- rank: 1000

Back in the late 1980s, I wrote four articles for the literary journal Grand Street, edited by Ben Sonnenberg. They re on the transformation of the corporate titan (Morgan to Pickens), Yale and the CIA, Greider s book on the Fed, and a psychoanalysis of money. You can get them here: http://wp.me/pqagG-en Doug

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