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A Berkeley Commencement Speech, Some Years Ago…

John Battelle's Searchblog

Is it library science, architecture, design? Yahoo, Amazon, and even Priceline shook off the snows of 2002 and began to grow again. SIMS suffers from something of a definition problem, doesn’t it? Is it computer science, anthropology, or journalism? Get used to it but don’t take it for granted—it’s how the world is evolving.

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Prisoners' literacy and numeracy levels

CILIP

I eventually discovered that the basis of these figures was a House of Commons written answer drawn from a 2002 report from the Social Exclusion Unit which in turn quoted a survey done in prisons in 2001. consisting of talk and exercises from the teacher. primary school maths? might be and we do not assign reading ages to adults.