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The Walt Disney Company [is] building a chain of language schools in China big enough to enroll more than 150,000 children annually. The schools, which weave Disney characters into the curriculum, are not going to move the profit needle at a company with $41 billion in annual revenue. But they could play a vital role…
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When it comes to the subject of arts advocacy and democracy in general, Steven J. Tepper believes in posing provocative and challenging questions. Tepper is the Associate Director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy and professor in the Department of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. In his recent book Not Here, Not…
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I heard Steven J. Tepper, PhD – Curb Creative Campus – speak last night…
I heard Steven J. Tepper, PhD – Curb Creative Campus – speak last night… It was a non academic audience, so he kept it light, or “lite” actually. He is associate director at the Curb Center at Vanderbilt. He spoke about the importance of creative habits. I’m trying to track down the working definition of…
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mikkipedia: “Writers don’t write from experience, though many are resistant to admit that they don’t. I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.” — Nikki Giovanni (via amandaonwriting) Hm. I have mixed feelings about how empathy functions, or how…
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underpaidgenius: Scorching Phoenix Plans For An Even Hotter Future – Peter O’Dowd via NPR I read this piece waiting for the obvious and didn’t hear a whisper of it. Scorching Phoenix Plans For An Even Hotter Future – Peter O’Dowd via NPR The view is bleak from John Larsala’s front drive in West Phoenix. The…