The big winner Tuesday here in Colorado was our wonderful neighborhood caucus-assembly system for getting nominated to the primary ballot. Lots of people will be encouraged to get more involved with their local community and to get prepared for the 2012 Colorado Caucuses.
For more watch http://www.COCaucus.org now and after the elections in November, or call me about the Franklin Circle I'm organizing for serious citizens who really want to make a difference using the caucus-assembly system to get elected to public office or to help other good people get elected. Contact me at (303)861-1447, John@JohnWren.com, or attend the free, open Denver IDEA Cafe any Friday afternoon, for more about it see http://meetup.com/Denver-IDEA-Cafe
Together, Colorado citizens can use the 2012 Colorado Caucuses to break the strangle hold of the ruling class!
Have a big opportunity but not enough horses? Better call John Scott. No one will know you called unless you want them to know. Call landline (303)861-1447, leave a complete, confidential message. Online Socrates Cafe Beginners Meetings live each weekday afternoon: www.Meetup.com/Daily-Socrates-Cafe
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Monday, August 09, 2010

I just got this book after reading a very favorable review of it in the Wall Street Journal, and I think we'll be hearing a lot more about it. More here after I've read it.
“Renowned sociologist Andrew Hacker and New York Times writer Claudia Dreifus make an incisive case that the American way of higher education, now a 420 billion-per-year business, has lost sight of its primary mission: the education of young adults. Going behind the myths and mantras, they probe the true performance of the Ivy League, the baleful influence of tenure, an unhealthy reliance on part-time teachers and the super-sized bureaucracies which now have a life of their own.
As Hacker and Dreifus call for a through overhaul of a self-indulgent system, they take readers on a road trip from Princeton to Evergreen State to Florida Gulf Coast University, revealing those facilities and institutions that are getting it right and proving that teaching and learning can be achieved—and at a much more reasonable price.”
More at http://www.highereducationquestionmark.com/
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