Thursday, June 10, 2010

Stone, Maddow, Noor and Frist on Maher's HBO Real Time - Monsters and Critics

Stone, Maddow, Noor and Frist on Maher's HBO Real Time

Queen Noor of Jordan attends the Vanity Fair Party to kick-off the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival in New York USA, 20 April 2010. EPA/PETER FOLEY

By April MacIntyre Jun 10, 2010, 5:26 GMT

"Real Time with Bill Maher" concludes the first half of its eighth season Friday, June 11 (10:00-11:00 p.m. live ET/tape-delayed PT), exclusively on HBO, with an instant replay at 11:00 p.m., following the live presentation.

Maher dishes his perspective on contemporary issues via an opening monologue, roundtable discussions with panelists, and interviews with in-studio and satellite guests.

The roundtable guests this week are former Tenn. Sen. Bill Frist, news anchor Rachel Maddow and journalist Jon Meacham; Queen Noor of Jordan, chairwoman of the King Hussein Foundation, and director Oliver Stone are interview guests.

Blog U.: Math Geek Mom: Summer School - Mama PhD - Inside Higher Ed

Math Geek Mom: Summer School
By Rosemarie Emanuele June 10, 2010 9:23 pm

In the center of Boston is the Boston Common, where there are several small statues of the ducklings made famous by the book “Make Way for Ducklings”. Long before I became a parent, I bought a painting from a local Boston artist that depicted the statues of the ducklings from that children's book. In a decision of radical faith in the future, and one that involved finding a few extra dollars that I, as a graduate student, didn’t really have at the time, I bought it and decided that if I was ever to have a child, I would hang it in their room. I know that someday my daughter will outgrow it, but for now, it hangs above her desk in her room. I hope to visit the Boston Commons with her some day and show her the original statues that depict the characters from the book which she, of course, has a copy of. If such a visit takes place some year, it will be after my summer school class has ended for the summer.
I know of many people who claim that that just don’t teach summer school. The pay is often not great, and it takes away from time that might be spent on research and course development. However, someone must teach summer classes, which reminds me of the question of the “tragedy of the commons.” Like the farmers who all brought their cows to
- iPhone 4: Don't Want, Will Buy
  By Joshua Kim June 10, 2010 9:37 pm
  3 Reasons Why I Don't Want an iPhone 4:
  1. Design: I love my Pantech Breeze, a phone that CNET describes as "ideal for the elderly as well as those with vision problems" (neither category that I've yet to enter). Seriously, I like a small clamshell phone that only does calling, with an occasional text message to my 12 or 13 year old.
  2. Attention: I am learning enough about the limits of my rational brain (please read Dan Ariely's amazing new book The Upside of Irrationality) to know that I'll be distracted by an iPhone. My kids will be trying to talk to me, and I'll be engrossed in FaceTime or playing

Louisiana Senate panel backs tuition increase bill - Boston.com

Louisiana Senate panel backs tuition increase bill

By Melinda Deslatte

Associated Press Writer / June 10, 2010

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BATON ROUGE, La.—A proposal to let Louisiana's public colleges raise their tuition up to 10 percent a year received the unanimous backing Thursday of a Senate committee that loosened the restrictions contained in the bill and sped up the allowed increases.

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As the proposal received approval from the House, schools would only be allowed to raise tuition if they meet performance improvement benchmarks, like increasing admission standards, improving graduation rates and boosting efforts to get students into jobs. The tuition increases could have begun in the 2012-13 school year.

But the Senate Education Committee reworked the bill to allow the schools to get two years of tuition increase authority, beginning in the fall -- before they have to meet the lengthy list of performance benchmarks required under the measure.

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The Portland School Board is prepared to close Jefferson High, co-chair says | OregonLive.com

The Portland School Board is prepared to close Jefferson High, co-chair says

Published: Thursday, June 10, 2010, 5:42 PM Updated: Thursday, June 10, 2010, 6:56 PM

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Steven Nehl/The OregonianFive members of the Portland School Board have lined up behind a plan to close Jefferson High School in North Portland.

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A majority of the Portland School Board is prepared to vote to closeJefferson High School and scale back to just seven neighborhood high schools, board co-Chair Trudy Sargent announced this evening.

She indicated that board members Dilafruz Williams and Martin Gonzalez are prepared to join with the three board members who already had said they want to close two schools -- Jefferson and Marshall -- to provide a more robust array of courses and services at the seven high schools that would remain.

Superintendent Carole Smith unveiled an eight-school plan in April for reorganizing Portland Public Schools' high schools, recommending that only Marshall close.

Read previous stories about the Portland high school reorganization.

"More schools means weaker programs," said board member Pam Knowles, who favors closing Jefferson and creating a districtwide college-oriented magnet program on the Jefferson campus in partnership with next-doorPortland Community College.

Tony Hopson, head of Self-Enhancement Inc. and one of the highest profile champions of Jefferson High, decried the development.

"Once again, the decision was made on the backs of black children. That's how it's been historically, and here it is again," he said. Jefferson is in the heart of Portland's historic African American neighborhoods and is the only majority-black high school in Oregon.

"This decision will probably ignite a very serious ethnic discussion across this city," Hopson said.

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