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April 17, 2023 andreweverett360

Precision Scheduled Railroading from a carman’s perspective

Mike L wrote an article for The Real News Network titled A carman’s perspective on the East Palestine derailment and the railroad industry as a whole (March 31, 2023).

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April 12, 2023April 11, 2023 andreweverett360

The number of students at community colleges has fallen 37% since 2010

Jon Marcus of The Hechinger Report wrote an article titled More than a third of community college students have vanished (April 3, 2023).

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April 11, 2023 andreweverett360

FTC enforcement for review hijacking

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission issued a press release titled FTC Approves Final Order against The Bountiful Company in First Case Alleging Hijacking of Online Product Reviews (April 10, 2023).

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April 6, 2023 andreweverett360

People 55 and older are the fastest-growing segment of the workforce

Callum Borchers wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal titled Bosses Want Hard Workers—So They’re Hiring Older People (6 April 2023).

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April 1, 2023 andreweverett360

Alex Murrell: Distinctiveness has died.

Alex Murrell wrote a blog post titled The Age of Average (March 20, 2023).

« This article argues that from film to fashion and architecture to advertising, creative fields have become dominated and defined by convention and cliché. Distinctiveness has died. In every field we look at, we find that everything looks the same. Welcome to the age of average. »

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March 27, 2023 andreweverett360

Paul DelSignore on AI and the Law

Paul DelSignore wrote a Medium post titled AI and the Law: What You Need To Know (21 March 2023).

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March 18, 2023 andreweverett360

Why leaders should adopt an emergent rather than a reductionist approach to digital transformation

Mike Walsh wrote an article for Harvard Business Review titled  How to Navigate the Ambiguity of a Digital Transformation (November 29, 2021).

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March 17, 2023 andreweverett360

College enrollment declines as apprenticeships increase

Douglas Belkin wrote a Wall Street Journal article titled More Students Are Turning Away From College and Toward Apprenticeships (March 16, 2023).

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March 14, 2023 andreweverett360

ChatGPT and the Socratic method

Jeremy Tate wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal titled Socrates Never Wrote a Term Paper (5 February 2023). “In the ChatGPT era, evaluating student performance through traditional term papers no longer makes sense.”

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March 9, 2023March 17, 2023 andreweverett360

Mitch Goldstein on Design Education

Zachary Petit interviewed Mitch Goldstein for a Fast Company titled Design education is ready for a revolution (6 March 2023).  Mitch Goldstein is an associate professor at Rochester Institute of Technology.  Goldstein is the author of How to Be a Design Student (And How to Teach Them).

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