The Chronicle of Higher Education: Colloquy

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How many teachers, and how many institutions, would rush out to purchase all of their textbooks from just one author and consider our next generation well educated?

How many can advocate plagiarism while thinking of themselves as responsible teachers?

I invite you to discover for yourself how supporting the Microsoft platform exclusively is central in these scenarios.

The argument that schools should use what the "real world" uses is equivalent to arguing that schools should drop Shakespeare and teach the National Enquirer instead because it's more often read in the "real world."

Getting the facts on issues regarding a company who happens to exercise coercive control over the media demands some digging on one's own.

-- Ben Holland, Computing Services, University of Colorado at Denver (posted 4/20, 5:30 p.m., E.D.T.)
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