Monthly Archives: November 2009

The Measure of Mobility in Nevada

By Ray Watkins | Published: November 30, 2009
The American commitment to class mobility through education has always sketchy, despite the myths that cluster around the idea of the American Dream. There have been times that we got serious; the post WWII GI Bill is one example. The Obama administration, too, while perhaps too preoccupied with other issues, has made an effort to [...]
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Cubicle Sourcing

By Ray Watkins | Published: November 27, 2009
The recent flap over errors in the APA Style manual has pushed me into pulling a Seinfeld and coining a new term: Cubicle Sourcing. You heard it here first, the day after Thanksgiving, 2009. Cubicle Sourcing is the opposite of Crowd Sourcing, of course. Crowd Sourcing, Wikipedia reminds us, is “a neologism for the act [...]
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