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November 6, 2009

The Chico Romance

Ashley Thorne

A sustainability conference at CSU-Chico prompts a concerned letter. NAS spots some good reasons for concern.

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November 6, 2009

Message to Ed Schools: Practice What You Teach

Ashley Thorne

Teachers-in-training should learn something before they begin teaching. But they should not learn just anything.

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November 6, 2009

Response to Mitchell

Jonathan Smith

After NAS posted Academic Questions article "Remapping Geography," Don Mitchell offered a response to the authors, Jonathan M. Smith and Jim Norwine. Here Professor Smith responds to Mitchell.

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November 5, 2009

NAS Articles This Week

Ashley Thorne

Check out the NAS articles from this week so far! Remapping Geography, Jonathan M. Smith and Jim Norwine, Nov. 2 On the state of academic geography today, from a forthcoming issue of Academic Q......

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November 5, 2009

Academic Freedom Forum

Peter Wood

This article, originally posted at MindingtheCampus.com, is a response, added to those of others, to University of Chicago president Robert Zimmer's recent speech on academic freedom.

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