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Conversations with, and Between, Queensland Elites
Dear friends, Thoughts? A wealthy school could afford to improve the teaching strategy, the same curriculum, by retro-technology. But in the United States there has been thinking on meritocracy for nearly a century, and, indeed, the reform of meritocracy. What do you think? https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/12/meritocracy-college-admissions-social-economic-segregation/680392/?gift=dpNmmIb8s6tgeaq0wQsEo0G3TC2YmQmhgvxg_L-CK_Y&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share Thoughts? A wealthy school could afford…
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It Is Not Good. This is Not Good: Do You Hope for Many Readers in Vain?
Featured Image: It Is Not Good. This is Not Good. Writers often have the common thought. Despite differing opinions there is a large coalition of thought against Trumpism. Nevertheless, I’m left with a horrible feeling that I am not read carefully and am not understood. …
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Let’s See
Dear Friends, Let’s see if I am wrong. If Trump is so much a liar that he will not do what he passionately said he would do, or that he does have dictator ambitions. My money is on the latter. Day One is 20 January 2025. The 20th amendment to the Constitution specifies…
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Bruce Springsteen, On the streets of Philadelphia?
Bruce Springsteen, On the streets of Philadelphia I was bruised and battered I couldn’t tell what I felt I was unrecognizable to myself Saw my reflection in a window And didn’t know my own face Oh brother are you gonna leave me wastin’ away On the streets of Philadelphia? I…
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The Allan Lichtman Historiography
Allan Jay Lichtman (born April 4, 1947) is an American historian. He has taught at American University in Washington, D.C. since 1973. Lichtman created The Keys to the White House system with Soviet seismologist Vladimir Keilis-Borok in 1981. The system uses 13 true/false criteria to predict whether the presidential candidate of the incumbent party will…
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ON MY OLD BOSS. Jason Koutsoukis’ In like Glyn, The Monthly, November 2024
Jason Koutsoukis’ In like Glyn in The Monthly, November 2024, provides an excellent insight into the person of Professor Glyn Davis and the better politics. I worked for Professor Glyn Davis in Office of Vice-Chancellor, The University of Melbourne, during the planning and implementation of the Melbourne Model. Professor Davis is a brilliant…
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Really, Nick Cater!
Nick Cater sent a post in his “Reality Bites” series, called, “Intellectual rearmament”, with the tagline, “The British theologian who gave us the ammunition to defeat the Aboriginal Voice.” Really? You’d need ammunition to defeat the Aboriginal Voice? Your outlook on life and politics is warfare? The theologian in…
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Dr Buch’s Full Listings of Articles, Essays, Chapters, and Books
Americans Have Not Turned Against Higher Ed. Reports of the sector’s cratering popularity are mistaken, The Chronicle of Higher Education, By Kevin Carey and Sophie Nguyen October 15, 2024 Americans are losing faith in the value of college. Or so we are told. As many colleges grapple with declining enrollment and intense…
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How Entertainment Has Been Used to Keep Uneducated Persons Ignorant
In the event of Donald Trump’s “Music Town Hall” meeting in Philadelphia suburbs, we can see how Entertainment Has Been Used to Keep Uneducated Persons Ignorant. Two attendees separately had medical issues at Donald Trump’s town hall with supporters in the Philadelphia suburbs on Tuesday, the former…
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Explaining Kamala Harris’ Centrist Politics: extract from Michael Kranish’s ‘Washington Post’ article
Michael Kranish, “These five tumultuous years in Montreal shaped Kamala Harris”, The Washington Post, October 13, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT. MONTREAL — Kamala Harris was just starting her freshman year at a high school in Quebec when, as one of her classmates recalled, “all hell broke loose.” After years of…