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It was very important for you to get married and have kids as well. Why do you think you wanted everything at the same time? I knew that at a very young age too. To me, what is a brilliant career, what is an interesting job or an interesting assignment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Morning Joe's Mika Brzezinski | 1/8/2010 | See Source »

Why is that? There's no upside for them. There have been a few cases where open-access colleges that don't have much to lose will try to get their data out there. A couple of years ago, I wrote a column about the University of Nebraska at Omaha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holding Colleges Accountable: Is Success Measurable? | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

Then there are other kinds of data that I mention in the article - things like the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) and the Collegiate Learning Assessment. NSSE [pronounced Nessie] is a measure of teaching quality and student learning. The Collegiate Learning Assessment is a test of critical thinking, analytic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holding Colleges Accountable: Is Success Measurable? | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

Can't they hypothetically do that only with public universities, not private ones? In theory, all those private colleges are chartered by the state. Sure, the privacy of private colleges should be respected. I do think, however, that it's reasonable to ask private colleges to disclose a lot more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holding Colleges Accountable: Is Success Measurable? | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

"This is a very important issue and one, I suspect, that has been the biggest cause of delays," says Hans Kristensen of the Federation of American Scientists. "We don't want Russian war planners deciding to put as many warheads as possible on their delivery vehicles - that is not a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Nuclear Arms Pledge Hits Stumbling Block | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

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