This brief item appears at Phys.org: “American household Christmas lights, a favorite holiday tradition, use up more electricity than some poorer countries—such as El Salvador or Ethiopia—do in a year. “Bright lights strung on American trees, rooftops and lawns account for 6.63 billion kilowatt hours of electricity consumption every year, according to a recent blog post by the Center…
Saving Our Kids’ Lives Arne Duncan’s Last Speech as U.S. Secretary of Education In his final speech as Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan will deliver remarks at Saint Sabina Church on 12:00 PM ET in Chicago. Duncan will call for continued work to save the lives of America’s children by protecting them from violence, combatting disconnectedness from society, and…
Want good schools? Then train teachers well, pay them a competitive wage and give them the resources they need. It’s that simple. Really. Yet, for the past decade-and-a-half, we’ve been trying anything, anything at all, to prove this wrong. Though educational policy disaster has followed upon educational policy disaster, our leaders and our journalists continue…
The AAUP was founded on January 1 and 2, 1915. Shortly after the founding meeting, the Association’s first president, Columbia University philosophy professor John Dewey, appointed a Committee on Academic Freedom and Academic Tenure, referred to as “the committee of fifteen.” The committee took up investigations of violations of academic freedom at the universities of Utah,…
25. Postdoc blues: how do you know when it is time to give up? They think I’m a rising star, but my hopes of a real career in science are sinking. A melancholy start to our countdown. Like this? Try: PhD students run professors close in Twitter popularity contest 24. World’s top 10 universities led…
Since 1974 the Student Press Law Center (SPLC) has been the nation’s only legal assistance agency devoted exclusively to educating high school and college journalists about the rights and responsibilities embodied in the First Amendment and supporting the student news media in their struggle to cover important issues free from censorship. The SPLC provides free…
At least partly because of the bad weather, only one Iowa voter showed up at an event for the O’Malley campaign. Here is the description below the photo distributed by CNN’s Politics newsletter: “Martin’s only man: Opposite the former governor is ‘Kenneth,’ as he was identified in a tweet by reporter Sarah Beckman, who also served…