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...Academics are split on the usefulness of Wikipedia, which bills itself as "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit." The sheer volume of content (Wikipedia claims over 5.3 million entries, 1.6 million in English) is partly responsible for the site's dominance as an online reference. When compared to the top 3,200 educational reference sites in the U.S., Wikipedia is #1, capturing 24.3% of all visits to the category, according to Hitwise data. But as the recent drama illustrates, a body of online knowledge built by an army of 75,000 volunteer, anonymous contributors and editors is prone...
...Nasinyai Masai village is the new junior secondary school, where 220 11-to-14-year-olds start their day at 5:30 a.m. with "water fetching," then study English, science, social studies and HIV/AIDS awareness. "We have high rates of infection because it's a mining area. Where people are thinking about money, you always have more unsafe sex," says one of the teachers. Lenganasa L. Soipey?a member of the Nasinyai village council and son of the Masai chief who permitted the first tanzanite mining on Masai lands?draws the school layout in the sand. "We built an enclosed...
...Quaker presidents, and, to quote Wiki, “Many Quakers feel their faith does not fit within traditional Christian categories of Catholic, Orthodox or Protestant, but is an expression of another way of experiencing God.” I want my free growler! Dear Attractive Girl in My English Section, Look at me, dammit. Sincerely, ????? Hey kid at the Advocate who was dancing with a broom all night: I really respect that. To people who ask questions in lecture, Do not waste everyone’s time on something you didn’t hear or understand completely. Your...
...mother, Carla J. Jentoft, dedicated to her Harvard application. “My mom wrote out exhaustive transcripts for us,” Jentoft said. “Every class we took and what the class consisted of. It wouldn’t just say ‘English.’ It was what texts we used and how the grade was determined. She did all the classes, all the extracurriculars, and service I’d done.”A homeschooling parent who considers herself more of a “general contractor” than...
...major conference in the Pac 10, had no professional career, instead joining the Marines and afterwards continuing his education at Yale Law School. (In case you’re wondering, Wayne isn’t the only one with Ivy League ties. Bill Buchanan has a degree in English from Brown—doesn’t strike me as the type—and Karen Hayes went to Princeton...