For teens (12-17-year-olds), blogging is down and networking is up. That's the finding in a new report from Pew Research, whose Internet & American Life Project is one of the longest ongoing survey initiatives out there. The summary appears here.
While 28 percent of teen users in 2006 claimed that they keep a blog, that number now stands at 14 percent. And while 76 percent of them claimed
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Everyone who cares about federal funding for the humanities has been worried about what the President´s budget would reveal about the commitment of the Obama administration to the sector. Many of us were at least a little disappointed that NEH and NEA did not do better last year, although in the end Congress was more generous than the Executive Office. Of course NEA got a huge bump last year with the transfer of stimulus money, but…
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At the World Economic Forum last week over in Davos, Switzerland, another figure rose up to warn of the dangers that the digital revolution pose to reading. He stated, "The one that I do worry about is the question of 'deep reading.'" Surveying the plethora of "instantaneous devices," he declared that "you spend less time reading all forms of literature, books, magazines and so forth." The habits damage reading skills, and they damage cognition, too, he maintained, although he took a moment…
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The newly-released Sloan Consortium Report on online higher education finds that the number of college students taking at least one online course increased from 3.9 million in Fall 2007 to 4.6 million in Fall 2008, a 17 percent jump. The overall number of college students grew 1.2 percent during the same time. In 2002, less than 10 percent of students were taking an online class. Today, more than 25 percent do.
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A blog dedicated to the reclamation and protection of individual rights at monocultural public universities.
"Brainstorm; Review; Lives of the Mind" A blog run by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
First Principles is the online journal of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute where college and university faculty and students as well as those interested in ideas can find original content and archival material on American intellectual conservatism.
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Mid-length articles on the politics, the business, and the philosophy of higher education, and how a traditional liberal arts education is faring in contemporary academia.
