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RE: [xmca] Fwd: NYTimes.com: David Brooks's Theory of Human Nature

And yet, because Brooks has his NYT platform, more people will read his book than all of our academic papers combined, and it's more likely to influence public and educational policy than all of next month's AERA sessions could hope to affect. 

Peter Smagorinsky

Distinguished Research Professor of English Education

Department of Language and Literacy Education

The University of Georgia

125 Aderhold Hall

Athens, GA 30602

smago@uga.edu


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Subject: [xmca] Fwd: NYTimes.com: David Brooks's Theory of Human Nature

This review seems relevant to our interests. The last paragraph is worth the
price of admission, but so is some of what preceeds it.




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 The Times op-ed columnist David Brooks argues that people need to stop
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