[xmca] Fwd: NYTimes.com: Geek Lessons

I am sending this along for the lead article on "geek lessons" which has a
number of interesting observations about good college teaching. The article
below on race and the election is, I think, addressed to an ever more
salient conversation within the us that has at last come out into the
mainstream media.
mike

 * MAGAZINE * | September 21, 2008
 * The Way We Live Now: Geek Lessons
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/magazine/21wwln-lede-t.html?ei=5070&emc=eta1>
*
 By MARK EDMUNDSON
 Why good teaching will never be fashionable.

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1. Op-Ed Columnist: Aaron Sorkin Conjures a Meeting of Obama and
Bartlet<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/opinion/21dowd-sorkin.html?ei=5070&emc=eta1>
2. Editorial Observer: Barack Obama, John McCain and the Language of
Race<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/opinion/22observer.html?ei=5070&emc=eta1>
3. Op-Ed Columnist: Truthiness Stages a
Comeback<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/opinion/21rich.html?ei=5070&emc=eta1>
4. Op-Ed Columnist: The Push to 'Otherize'
Obama<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/opinion/21kristof.html?ei=5070&emc=eta1>
5. College Panel Calls for Less Focus on
SATs<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/education/22admissions.html?ei=5070&emc=eta1>

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