Posts Tagged ‘Alan R. Earls’
Physical Plant: A Review of Architecture and Academe: College Buildings in New England Before 1860
by Alan R. Earls
June 27, 2011
Architecture and Academe: College Buildings in New England Before 1860; Bryant F. Tolles Jr.; University Press of New England, 2011
It’s not the topic that New England’s higher education institutions generally boast about, but for many it is their most obvious attribute—the brick, stone, mullioned, porticoed and columned facades that helped set the standard for what ...
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New Amendment: Quality Ed as a Constitutional Right
by Alan R. Earls
May 22, 2011
Quality Education as a Constitutional Right: Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Public Schools; Theresa Perry, Robert Moses, Lisa Delpit, Ernesto Cortes Jr., Joan T. Wynne, editors; Beacon Press Books; 2010; Paperback $16
Quality Education as a Constitutional Right offers a provocative look at the continued disconnect between the rhetoric of reform and the facts of ...
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Review of MacroWikinomics
by Alan R. Earls
February 22, 2011
MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World; Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams; Portfolio/Penguin 2010; $27.95
In a recent check of Google search term rankings, the term “wiki” garnered more than 100 million inquires over the prior 30 days. Presumably, some portion of that traffic was generated by those seeking for MacroWikinomics or its predecessor volume, Wikinomics. ...
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Book Review: Edupunks Chart Coming Transformation of Higher Ed
by Alan R. Earls
January 6, 2011
DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education, Anya Kamenetz, Chelsea Green Publishing, White River Junction, Vt., 2010
Anya Kamenetz, a 2002 graduate of Yale and staff writer for Fast Company, could be an academic's worst nightmare. Articulate, forceful and skilled—her writing lobs volleys of criticisms that are hard to refute and harder ...
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Book Review: Harnessing America’s Wasted Talent
by Alan R. Earls
December 12, 2010
Harnessing America's Wasted Talent: A New Ecology of Learning, Peter Smith, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 2010
In 1970, I was a high school student in a suburban New England town. The invasion of Cambodia and the shootings at Kent State had brought spectacular illumination to the end of the academic year and dimmed hopes that the war ...
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Books: Extending
by Alan R. Earls
June 4, 2010
The Gates Unbarred: A History of University Extension at Harvard, 1910-2009; Michael Shinagel; Harvard University Extension Monograph, Puritan Press, Hollis, N.H., 2009; $14.95
Reviewed by Alan R. Earls, a Boston-area writer who earned a graduate certificate through Harvard Extension.
The old saying, attributed variously to John F. Kennedy and Count Ciano, that success has many ...
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Book Review: Looking Backwards
by Alan R. Earls
September 26, 2011
Liberal Education for a Land of Colleges: Yale’s Reports of 1828, David B. Potts, Palgrave MacMillan, 2010.
Liberal Education for a Land of Colleges: Yale’s Reports of 1828, is, in a sense, three small books under one cover. David Potts, an academic residing in the Pacific Northwest, was originally introduced to the documents more than 40 ...
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