Content tagged with “education”

“Did you know you can get an advanced degree in actual intelligence ? Here are some options: Master’s in Global Security Studies at Johns Hopkins Master of Arts in Counterintelligence Studies at the Institute of World Politics Master of Arts in Intelligence Studies at American Military University…”

“Let’s talk about the benefits of a college degree. Outside of a credential and the corresponding letters to go after your name, presumably the major benefit is an increase in knowledge. But what is the increase of knowledge comprised of, exactly? Meaning, if you take someone and baseline their…”

“ Higher education does lead to more liberal political viewpoints, but the gap isn’t as large as many claim it to be. ”

“ A look at bad college degrees and an examination of what makes them that way. ”

“ When women enter a profession or institution in greater numbers, men leave. The latest example is college. ”

“ The Jungle Gym was designed to help kids think in three dimensions. But kids just liked to climb on them. ”

“ This is a specialized public school that’s targeted to a specific type of student or course of study, such as math, science, etc. A magnet school ‘draws in’ students from other areas (you know, like a magnet). ”

“This is a vague word, generally meaning the studies of things centered around human beings, their culture and condition. The opposing field is science, including social sciences like law and economics. A review of several sources produced this list of fields of studies that can fall under the…”

“This is a portmanteau of the words ‘mechanical’ and ‘electronic.’ It can refer to two related things: A general multidisciplinary approach to fields where robotics and electronics intersect The specific study of automation – both physical tooling and their control systems (for instance, on a…”

“This is a good and practical book about teaching. It’s meant for school teachers, but I read it for tips on communicating ideas. The title refers to the scope of teaching – there are large-scale strategies to improving teaching across groups. But this book is about small teacher – how to improve…”

“One of my daughter’s friends left this in my car after she borrowed it to drive to a Pitbull concert in Omaha. So I read it. Five students get mysteriously pranked into serving detention together. One of them dies from an allergic reaction. Who did it? The format of the book is interesting. Each…”

“This is a book about the state of American education, written by a famous movie director. As he tells it, when he went location scouting for one of his movies, he visited several high schools, and was shocked by the disparities. What followed a couple of years of research, and the result is this…”

“This is: a type of facility, like a gymnasium or hall a type of education institution or program The name comes from the Ancient Greek name of a gymnasium in Athens. Lyceum is often used to refer to that type of physical location. However, the word is also used to refer to a variety of educational…”

“Usually, when a university confers an honorary degree (often to a commencement speaker) the degree is a ‘Doctorate of Letters’ or ‘Doctorate of Humane Letters.’ It’s usually claimed that the degree is granted due to the recipient’s lifelong contribution to the arts. But what does ‘letters’ mean in…”

“ Multiple female Indian journalists were tricked into accepting teaching positions at Harvard which were entirely fake. No one knows who targeted them or why. ”

“This is a classic instruction manual that does what it says on the cover – it explains the different ways one might read a book. Specifically, there are four levels: Elementary Reading Inspectional Reading (divided into Skimming or Prereading, and Superficial Reading) Analytical Reading Synoptical…”

“This is simply the text of David Foster Wallace’s famed commencement speech given at Kenyon College a few years before he took his own life. What’s interesting is the format – it’s a tiny book (the speech is fairly short), and each sentence is on it’s own page. Seriously – an entire page is each…”

“The title is accurate: this is a meditation (an ‘observation’) about making art. It’s not a practical book, it’s just a series of thoughts about the struggle of people who make at to do it in spite of their fears. This is the source of the anecdote about two groups in a pottery class that were…”

“Let me first say this: my review here is not necessarily an endorsement of Sam Allberry’s specific views. But I am saying that this is a very well-written book, from an objective stance. Allberry is an English pastor who ‘experiences same-sex attraction’ (SSA). Those are his words. He doesn’t refer…”

“This a lovely, coffee table-ish book about the Bible. It’s a sequential tour through the Bible, story by story. Every story you’ve ever heard from the Bible – they’re all in here. The chapter header explains the characters in the story, the themes, the timeframe of the events, and the verse…”

“A good examination of why people spit BS, and how to debunk it. It drifts into a standard list of cognitive fallacies and statistical mistakes somewhere in the middle. But still, it’s generally very good. The author makes a point that some people’s identity hinges on their BS (like any member of…”

“ An absurd and sometime hilarious account of a Qatari prince who sort of attended USC…or didn’t, but somehow came away with a masters degree nonetheless. ”

“ A compelling story about false accusations brought against a university professor and the investigation that followed. ”

“ For every kid who bribed their way into a college spot they didn’t earn, another kid lost a spot. This is one story. ”

“Interesting book about how generalists have value, and there might be a myth about those single-minded people who start in one discipline and stay there. It’s good, but the different chapters are not well-differentiated – the titles are vague, and I had trouble following the development of the…”

“I love Steven Johnson, but this one was rough. It was…muddled. I’m still having trouble figuring out what his core premise was. He weaved in an out of it, and the book never seemed to have a central pillar to rally around. Then, at the end, he goes into a 20-page examination of the novel…”

“This is essentially a long-form rant against the fact that (1) people think they’re experts when they’re clearly not, and (2) they tend to look down on actual expertise and distrust experts. It was both inspiring and infuriating. The author writes well, but he offered no solutions. So, take it for…”

“I think I need to read this again. It’s complicated. The author is attempted to explain why war is so prevalent and violent in the Old Testament, but – on first reading, at least – it sounds like a very delicate skirting of the issue. If there was a central point or excuse, I missed it on the first…”

“I love Davis’s ‘don’t know much about’ books. He takes BIG subjects and writes about them in interesting ways. Kind of a frequently-asked-questions mode. He starts nowhere in particular, and meanders around, in a good way. His writing style is engaging and interesting. He can make any subject…”

“This is a hard book to find. It’s out of print, I gather, so I could never find the Fourth Edition, but I did manage to somehow track down a PDF of the Third Edition, which had to suffice. It’s a solid, broad overview of the scholarly research process, from picking a topic, through doing the read,…”

“Unfortunately, I didn’t like this book, and it pains me to write this, since I had just finished ‘On Writing Well’ for the third time, and it’s amazing. But this book…it just didn’t do anything for me. Zinsser presents this as an examination of writing non-fiction, and how this type of writing can…”

“This is my sixth Potter novel – I’ve read them all in order. Like the last one (‘The Order of the Phoenix’), this was long: somewhere close to 700 pages. And like that one, the book seemed to meander a lot. I said of the last one that Rowling could have cut 200 pages from the middle and no one…”

“For the record, I didn’t read the raw play, but rather the book ‘The Merchant of Venice’ by Modern Library. This book has the script, a scene-by-scene analysis, and about as much commentary from directors and actors who have staged the play. I supplemented this by watching the 1974 TV special with…”

“A good installment in the series, but overly long. At 900 pages, it was the longest so far. She could have cut a third of the book out and told the same story. There were hundreds of pages in the middle where not much of anything was happening. I enjoyed the characterization of Umbridge. Also, I…”

“ This video was shown at a Rotary lunch by the president of the local technical school. It lays out a solid (and entertaining) case that college isn’t for everyone, and you shouldn’t go ‘just to go.’ ”