Archive for March 2009

Education reform: Let’s start by burning all the textbooks

Paper textbooks are problematic in two ways: First, they're paper. Second, they're textbooks. Paper textbooks are bland, lifeless, designed-by-committee, politically correct intellectual junk food that cost five times what they should. It's time to go electronic with course materials, and let instructors (and students) choose *real* books online.

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Best Online Domination Method

The best thing I like from Vince Whinnery method is I can get complete step by step instructions in a Fast Action Manual (180 pages) and 8 exclusive DVDs tutorial - this is the only course you will ever need.

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How to Find the Best Free Piano Course

by Bryan Smith Why would anybody even consider taking private lessons that cost fifty dollars for a half-hour lesson when they can get a free piano course on the Internet? You could decide to get group lessons priced at about thirty dollars for a half-hour but that still adds up over time as well. You also have to consider the instructor and whether they are a good fit for you as a teacher. You can great get a great piano course on the Internet that allows you to try out the first lesson fo

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The left must stand up to anti-Semitism

From Spiked Online : Frank Furedi’s article is a sobering reflection on the connections between anti-Israeli sentiment and anti-Semitism (see After Gaza: what is behind 21st-century anti-Semitism? ). The central issues he raises have to do, firstly, with the role that sections of the left have played in legitimising anti-Semitism and, secondly, with how interpretations of the Holocaust are being distorted and abused. These issues, I would suggest, may be still more closely connected th

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