Thursday, June 23, 2016

@11:00, 6/23/16

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N.Y. / Region

New York Today: Beyond Stonewall

Thursday: The city’s gay bars, an anxious comedy show and Brooklyn’s hack-a-thon.

Anywhere out.

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Education

College Unaffordable Even in Higher Income Brackets

Rising tuition and fewer funds for public universities have priced even some of the upper middle class out of a college education.

A middle class income still buys a middle class education.

A middle class income is about $150,000/year.

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Education

Giving Young People an Alternative to College

In the next decade, as many as 25 million new job openings will be middle-skills positions that will not necessarily require a four-year degree.

A degree is the entry qualification to management.

Nonmanagement positions are by definition labor.
Labor is paid the minimum required to fill the position with the skills necessary.

4
Opinion

Texas’s Strict Abortion Law

A doctor writes, “Nowhere in my medical training was I taught how to circumvent needless barriers to care.”

I agree.

5
Magazine

The Secret to a Great Chicken Parm: Grill It

This update to the Italian-American classic will render a more complex version that is sweet, salty and smoke-scented all at once.

http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018191-grilled-chicken-parm

I do not eat pets.

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N.Y. / Region

20 Prison Workers Are Faulted in Killers’ Escape. 9 Remain on the Job.

There have been few serious consequences for the employees who enabled two killers to escape from the prison in Dannemora, N.Y., according to an examination of payroll records.

The union is well organized and funded.
The state must find a rout to discipline.

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Business Day

A Strategy Session With Some of Education’s Top Thinkers

College presidents, deans, professors and teaching advocates discuss challenges facing the future of education and some strategies to make it better.

Treating the symptoms of failure is pointless without an understanding of the process of learning.
It is not enough to apply patches, the process of learning must be studied and analyzed.
Children during the process will not receive a better education.
Children after the process will receive that improved education.
Let the process of learning about learning begin.
Education will result.

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Education

Give More Low-Income Students a Path to College

A report found that just one in 10 people from low-income families had a bachelor’s degree by age 25, compared with half of those from high-income families.

Another patch.

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Education

Revamping Community Colleges to Improve Graduation Rates

Community colleges across the United States are re-evaluating their curriculums and support structures to address the reasons so many students drop out.

Random action will not soon improve the result.

More patches. 

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Real Estate

Brooklyn Apartment Wanted: Will Climb Stairs

Jessica Poole specifically requested a fifth- or sixth-floor walk-up. She wanted a view.

Her reasoning is good.

We can get a view with a tower room.

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Must be at Pratt.

Returned
Education

Learning to Educate an Increasingly Diverse Nation

With minorities making up a majority of America’s student body, it is vital for places of higher education to train faculties in teaching and diversity issues.

The tradition is German rather than English.
A rigorous training of the mind rather than an accumulation of related experiences leading to a mastery of an area of knowledge.
there is no place for a tutor in the German system.

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T Magazine

A New Spot in Paris for Healthy Japanese — and Natural Wines

The chef behind Le Petit Keller, who formerly worked at Rose Bakery and launched the bento empire Nanashi, shares a recipe for matcha cake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matcha

ok

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Education

Today’s Students May Be Emotionally Unprepared

College students are facing more stress than their parents did, and the resultant anxiety and depression are worrisome to educators and policy makers.

Seventy years ago there was the Second World War.  Sixty years ago there was Korea.  Fifty years ago there was Vietnam. 
The selective service was always hungry.

Stop Whining.

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U.S.

Obama Set to Sign Bipartisan Update of 1976 Toxic Substance Law

Senator Tom Udall, Democrat of New Mexico, has been praised for holding together an ideologically divided group of senators and steering the legislation to the president’s desk.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/06/22/us/politics/ap-us-obama-chemical-regulation.html

"President Barack Obama signed the first major overhaul of toxic chemicals rules in 40 years into law on Wednesday, calling it proof that Washington can function despite intense polarization."

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U.S.

Verdict Expected in Third Trial of an Officer in Freddie Gray Case

Caesar R. Goodson Jr. faces seven charges in the highest-profile trial of any of the six officers charged in connection with Mr. Gray’s death.

Not guilty . . .
On all charges.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/24/us/verdict-freddie-gray-caesar-goodson-baltimore.html

16
Science

Cancer Is Contagious Among Clams. What About Us?

Once considered a rarity, infectious tumors appear to be more common in the animal world than once believed.

Not yet.

17
Real Estate

Price and Proximity Draw Fashion Industry to Long Island City

The average rent for office space is $33 a square foot, compared with $56 in the garment district of Manhattan, or $73 for prime areas of Midtown.

It pays to advertise.

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N.Y. / Region

Video: Can a Gun Maker Be Negligent?

Families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting in Newtown, Conn., are suing the makers and sellers of the rifle used in the massacre. On Monday, defendants made a plea to have the case dropped.

If the case fails it calls into question the pursuit of "deep pockets".

I am interested in the result.

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Education

Campuses Struggle With Approaches for Preventing Sexual Assault

Colleges and universities have stepped up their sexual assault education programs, but some data suggests that the number of incidents is actually rising.

It is a certainty that many are frightened.

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Education

Lightening the Load of Student Loan Debt

Students who educate themselves so they may educate others should not have to graduate with heavy debt.

Do what you can.
Eventually sanity will return to the economy.

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