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Students’ sense of entitlement

An article about contemporary students’ sense of entitlement is all over the Canadian papers today. It cites a UC Irvine study published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence. The article discusses how entitled today’s students feel. Here are some… Read more

Obama and Generation Jones

So, I’ve never heard of Generation Jones — the generation between the Boomers and Gen X — until recently. Generation Jones is presumably named such because they (we) are a generation of Jonesers. We yearn for things. This, I identify with. We were… Read more

NYT analysis of Obama’s victory speech

There’s a nice bit in the NYT blog that discusses the various allusions in Obama’s victory speech. It’s so nice to have a President (elect) who has a rhetorical… Read more

History in the making

I don’t really have anything profound to say about this historic moment, except that I’m just very happy and hopeful. I got to school this morning and noticed that the black students were all ecstatic. The newspapers were all gone before I got to… Read more

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