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Month: January 2011
The Man Cave Rulez
Editorials, Humor, Uncategorized

The Man Cave Rulez

By Christopher Jon Heuer January 16, 2011

1)  The first rule of the Man Cave is that you don’t write clever introductions regarding the Man Cave. The reason for this is        2)  The second rule of the Man Cave is that ______ without Caves aren’t Men. They aren’t even Women.  Women have Every Other Room in the House. And because they’ve displayed craftiness and dominance…

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Deaf Education: Numbering Our Flaws

By Jonathan Henner January 15, 2011

This is an article about numbers.  It does not purport to be anything else.  I will delineate numbers that varying researchers spent quite a bit of time gathering, and then I will discuss them briefly and draw connections to the potential political consequences of having the numbers listed define our reality.  It is my personal…

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On Reading Levels
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On Reading Levels

By Bobby Cox January 15, 2011

Jon Henner posted a great article here and at Deaf Politics about deaf education and various relevant statistics. There are profound implications for the deficiency in reading level in our deaf and hard of hearing peers.  Citizenship depends on reading level: the simplest newspaper, USA Today, is written at a fifth grade reading level, which is just barely…

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