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US - MA - Amherst, Hampshire College is inviting applications for the position of Director of the Culture Brain and Development Program. This is a faculty/staff position.  We are seeking a candidate whose researc

US - MA - Amherst, The Hampshire College Library Center seeks dynamic and innovating applicants for the position of Critical Social Inquiry and Digital Pedagogies Librarian. The ideal candidate will be excited to supp

US - MA - Amherst, Hampshire College’s Creative Writing Program invites applications for an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and African American Literary Arts, to begin in fall 2013. We seek a writer (

US - CA - Irvine, School of Social SciencesDepartment of Political ScienceInternational StudiesPosition: Tenured Track Assistant ProfessorThe Political Science Department at the University of California, Irvine seeks

Leobardo Espinoza Jr., a high school senior in Kansas, will never have a final decision from Stanford or Brown Universities, and he’s “perfectly fine with that.”    

The Massachusetts university where one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects attended is restricting the number of people who can attend this weekend's graduation ceremonies as colleges and universities around the country tighten security for commencement in reaction to the deadly April 15 attack.

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If you were in charge of planning a little free library for your community, where would you put it, what would it look like, and what books would you put in it to start? Why?    

Earlier this week I published a piece by UCLA Professor and author Mike Rose titled, "Leave No Unwealthy Child Behind," in which he discusses how economic inequality is reflected in educational achievement. Here's a response from Robert Bligh, former general counsel of the Nebraska Association of School Boards. Bligh's research interest involves the efficacy of the school reform efforts promoted by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act since its original adoption in 1965. He served as assistant professor at Doane College and was editor and publisher of the Nebraska School Law Reporter.

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Why do you think mainstream corporations are interested in having rappers endorse their products in general?    

What is the best word for the blank in this sentence about an encounter with an octopus?    

The tiny Buena Vista School District in Michigan has laid off all but three staffers and is closing down now because it says it can't afford to operate for the rest of the school year. Though teachers in the three-school district in Saginaw voted to keep working for free, officials decided they are keeping the schools closed unless some way out of the crisis can be found.

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