A couple of critiques about modern American education
Excellent Sheep (book)
Bloggingheads.tv interview - Glenn Loury (Brown University) and William Deresiewicz (Excellent Sheep)
At around the 18:00 minute mark there is a discussion of the Econ Major (which at Ivy League schools that don't have a Business School is about the Business Major as well).
The Overprotected Kid - Hanna Rosin
A couple of my posts (one is a guest post on another blog) about what I hope students will develop as mental habits
Encouraging The Mind to Putter
Making connections via mental puttering: Lessons from teaching with blogs (The picture of me, which from about 10 years ago, shows I didn't always have as much gray in my beard.)
Some Business News Web sites that might be used to write a blog post on other than the prompt
NPR site - search on profit sharing
New York Times site - search on the invisible handshake (this illustrates that not all searches will hit a home run for you).
PBS NewsHour - Economy page
Google Search - Transfer pricing
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