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The greatest challenge with promoting literacy with ICT is that ICT may not be the most appropriate tool to promote literacy.

The issue here is that we are starting with the solution instead of the problem. We are asking: How can ICT help address low literacy levels? Instead of: How can low literacy levels be addressed?

This might seem like semantics at first, but there is a fundamental difference between those two questions:

This is significant because when we start with a solution already in mind, we tend to reduce the problem to only those factors that can be solved using that prescribed solution.

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Christmas in Christ Chapel, the annual holiday tradition at Gustavus Adolphus College will be held Dec. 2-4 and is themed Julljus: Light from the Old World, Light to the New.

This year’s Christmas in Christ Chapel theme was specially chosen for the College’s Sesquicentennial year, as the College reflects on the faith of its founders—their trust in the Light of the Christ Child and their dedication to the Light of Knowledge. The College is also privileged to welcome the Rev. Sabin

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President Obama has been an advocate for improving the quality of education that children in the USA receive for years, and now, he has taken another step in this direction. On Tuesday, he announced some changes that are going to be made to the Head Start program. This program allows children from low-income families to attend preschool.

This is the first time in history that Head Start programs will truly be held accountable for performance, Obama said during a speech.

It is somewhat strange that Head Start has not been held accountable to the same standards as other  education programs, such as No Child Left Behind and other reform efforts.

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The book traces Hoffmans sculptures from their their 1933 debut and nearly four decades at the Field Museum to numerous reuses, repackagings, reproductions, and publications that reached across the world.

A provocative new study. . . . Kinkel shows how the images contributed to a contentious and mutating discourse on race through the end of the 20th century.-Sue Taylor, Art in America

Barnet Kellman ’69 is in the forefront of an academic initiative at the University of Southern California that will offer courses examining all aspects of comedy.

Kellman and two fellow USC professors were featured in a New York Times article in which they said the new program is the most extensive effort by an American university to examine and foster the manufacture of humor.

The initiative will be introduced at the three-day “Comedy@SCA” festival, which begins this Friday with a discussion between Steve Carell and the film director Peter Segal (Get Smart). Other sessions include Ivan Reitman (No Strings Attached), Paul Feig (Bridesmaids) and James Bobin (The Muppets), according to the Times.

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