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December 31, 2009

Highlights from NAS's 2009 Fall Semester

Ashley Thorne

As we head into the New Year, we look back on 30 of our most memorable articles this fall semester.

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December 30, 2009

The Best Careers Through Online Education

Ashley Thorne

By Adrienne Carlson It may come as a surprise to you, especially if you’ve always believed that online education is inferior to the traditional kind – there are certain careers where an......

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December 29, 2009

Muppet Yoda or ‘Toon Yoda?

David Clemens

For 30 years, I have used Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now in conjunction with Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness to illustrate allusion, ambiguity, irony, anxiety of influence, medi......

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December 29, 2009

Marxists in Schools of Education Respond to NAS Article

Ashley Thorne

Crosspost from www.NAS.org Two weeks ago I published an article about a Marxist journal that has seized authority in the education world. The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies......

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December 29, 2009

Che Lives?

Ashley Thorne

An NAS article on a Marxist journal for educators seems to have secured the attention of some of the last remaining Marxists on earth.

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