Are Bigger Universities Better?
Urbanists have long argued that cities’ large size and density helps them “foster the exchange of ideas.” Wouldn’t it make sense to apply that logic to the very institutions meant to produce new ideas?
The bottom line on summer learning loss
Researchers, in fact, have found that summer academic programs are more effective — based on test scores — for students who are not economically disadvantaged. What this suggests is that programs for kids who aren’t poor are better constructed and resourced.
So what works?
For the children who need it most — poor children — well-thought programs provide broader-based support, but one intervention that has proved to work well in stemming reading loss is ensuring that young people have books to read.
Library reading programs work — but for many kids in big cities, getting to a library can be impossible. The key, according to experts such as Richard Allington, a researcher at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, is making sure that children have access to books they want to read. Book giveaways work.
15 Ways BuzzFeed Is Toying With Your Faith In Humanity - Yahoo News
The truth about BuzzFeed will blow your mind and change your life…
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Guys, please stop.
I will do nearly anything for a joke. However I recognize that the petition system is a good thing, and if we abuse it because we think we’re hilarious, it will go away.
Remember that hilarious Death Star petition? Well because of that, they raised the signature quota for these petitions. Please let’s not have that happen again. Thanks.
Just because there’s a fucking petition doesn’t mean anything will happen.
Why is this so hard for tumblr to understand?
Yeah, exactly. By using the petition system instead of a blog or whatever to make shitty jokes, you’re minimizing whatever power the petition system had to begin with. It’s not a guarantee that the White House will respond or anything, but it is a risk. People do use the site and have gotten positive responses in the past. For example, the Tuition Assistance program that helps Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Coast Guardsman, and Airmen with education payment is here to stay. These petitions can work. Trivializing them lowers that potential.
Whole Foods Shows Customers the Bleak Future of Produce Without Bees
“The decline in bee populations has been all the buzz lately, which led Whole Foods Market to team up with the Xerces Society to show us what a world—or at least, produce section—without bees would look like. The University Heights, Rhode Island store removed all foods that are reliant upon the important pollinators, and it leaves a pretty slim selection; 52% of the produce department’s offerings would be pulled from shelves without bees around to help.”
(via inhabitat)
Digg Blog: Digg Reader Update!
Over the last 90 days, the Digg engineering team — all 5 of them — has been heads-down building an updated take on the RSS reader. For our first public release, in time to (just) beat the shutdown of Google Reader, our aim has been to nail the basics: a web and mobile reading experience that is…
“Ask a teacher friend of yours who teaches in a test-centric school how inspiring their job is. Ask them what it’s like to teach the same lesson, read the same script and grade the same assessments as every other teacher in the district they reside. Ask them how much joy they feel when they interrupt their classes to bring students to a “test prep rally,” or when they are required to include sample test questions in all of their assessments. Ask them what it is like to have their professional instincts questioned and their years of experience tossed aside in lieu of new programming designed to raise test scores. Even if these programs increase test scores, they turn our teachers into technicians and destroy their souls along the way.”
How much does it cost to stay at an Airbnb vs hotel?
We’ve put together a detailed analysis of the price of staying at a hotel versus Airbnb for every major US city.
"Fertile Ground"
Marco Arment on iOS 7:
Apple has set fire to iOS. Everything’s in flux. Those with the least to lose have the most to gain, because this fall, hundreds of millions of people will start demanding apps for a platform with thousands of old, stale players and not many new, nimble alternatives. If you want to enter a category that’s crowded on iOS 6, and you’re one of the few that exclusively targets iOS 7, your app can look better, work better, and be faster and cheaper to develop than most competing apps.
This is exactly right.
no one fails an English or history class
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I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.
- Jeff Bezos
only+nina: A List of Things That Perplex Me Since Returning to America
A lot of clothing is transparent, why? I don’t want to have to wear a cami underneath every single shirt. Even the stuff intended to be opaque is sheer. I don’t want the world to see my delicates. I feel like such a grandma.
Twerking.
Even though I’m growing to enjoy Snapchat, I’m convinced…
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