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If the almost universal unpopularity of Duncan's proposal ends up bringing people together and energizing the legislative process, then it's a clever act of leadership. Otherwise, the Administration is undertaking a risky political high-wire act through the waiver process. In fact, all things considered, it's not too soon to start asking what Plan C is? </P><P>Andrew J. Rotherham, who writes the blog Eduwonk, is a co-founder and partner at Bellwether <a href="http://usnationaleducation.blogspot.com/">Education</a>, a nonprofit working to improve <a href="http://usnationaleducation.blogspot.com/">education</a>al outcomes for low-income students. 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(Mashable) <P>Apple launched its back-to-school promotion Thursday, offering students a $100 gift card for the Mac App Store when they purchase a new Mac. The promotion runs from June 16 through September 20. International Apple Stores are also taking part in the promotion, offering users gift cards in local currency (75 Euros, £65, etc.).</P><P>[More from Mashable: 10 Stunning iPhone Bird Photos]</P><P>Apple does a back-to-school promotion every year, usually giving students a free iPod (or in recent years, an iPod touch) after mail-in-rebate, with the purchase of a new Mac.</P><P>College students, students accepted to college, their parents and faculty and staff members at any grade level qualify for the promotion. Apple also offers <a href="http://usnationaleducation.blogspot.com/">education</a>al discounts ranging from $50 to $200 off the retail price on Mac products. The promotion is good at Apple Stores, the Apple Online Store for <a href="http://usnationaleducation.blogspot.com/">Education</a> and authorized Apple campus stores. A full list of terms and conditions can be found at this page [PDF].</P><P>[More from Mashable: New MacBook Air Coming Late June [REPORT]]</P><P>Apple isn't the only company with a back-to-school promotion. Microsoft is giving college students a free Xbox 360 with the purchase of a Windows PC priced $699 or higher.</P><P>It's telling that Apple is switching its promotional tactics to the Mac App Store. The store soft-launched in January and is already proving successful for software developers. When Mac OS X Lion comes out next month, it will be available exclusively through the Mac App Store. 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I returned to <a href="http://usnationaleducation.blogspot.com/">education</a> and enrolled at a university after becoming unemployed during the economic downturn of the early 1990s. I well remember the clear sense I had of wishing to study a particular kind of subject; something in no way related to my past career; and which would ideally be utterly lacking, for me at least, in any sense of being work-related. This was the means through which I would strive to change the trajectory of my life. However, with hindsight and an enhanced capacity for reflexive analysis, I am now acutely aware that my decision to study the subjects that I did - and for 'their own sake' - was underpinned by these very concrete, personal, objectives.</P><P>In the event, I was fortunate. I secured a good degree, a teaching qualification, and a masters degree. 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Habermas, too, regards issues of democracy as fundamental, for it is democracy that facilitates universities as "communities of reason" in which "values are always under discussion".[i] What emerges in the ideas of Dewey and Habermas is a picture of the academy in which its raison d'etre </EM>is not construed as a simple choice between the 'pure' and the 'practical', but one in which these aims are melded, and are pursued and combined within a community, the denizens of which are encouraged go beyond this simple binarism and to develop and to apply democratically the faculty of reason.</P><P>Despite the force of Dewey's and Habermas's arguments, Ostovich demonstrates that the essentially binary conception of <a href="http://usnationaleducation.blogspot.com/">education</a> with which they take issue, and which is deeply rooted in antiquity, remains in broad circulation. 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The first and third of these, as he recounts them, consist of the material advancement of the individual or of wider society, whilst the second and fourth consist of the moral and virtuous advancement of society and of the individual, respectively.[ii] Whilst Frankena makes the common error of confusing one form of instrumentalism with another, it is clear from his subsequent remarks that his intention is to draw a distinction between broadly Sophist and Platonic conceptions of <a href="http://usnationaleducation.blogspot.com/">education</a>. He therefore continues in a vein that is prescient of much in current discourse:</P><P>"(This debate) is still with us in the question whether the emphasis in <a href="http://usnationaleducation.blogspot.com/">education</a> should be on method or skill, or on knowledge and truth... At any rate, many 'consumers', if not thinkers about <a href="http://usnationaleducation.blogspot.com/">education</a>, seem to conceive of it as a tool or toy, much as the Sophists did."[iii]</P><P>i Steven T. Ostovich 'Dewey, Habermas, and the university in society', in <a href="http://usnationaleducation.blogspot.com/">Education</a>al theory</EM>, Fall 1995, Vol. 45, No.4 ii Ibid. 8-10</P><P>iii Frankena W.K., '<a href="http://usnationaleducation.blogspot.com/">Education</a>', in Dictionary of the history of ideas</EM>, 1973, Weiner P.P. (ed. in chief), Charles Scribners Sons, USA, 79</P><P>Dr Cooper is a Ph.D. qualified <a href="http://usnationaleducation.blogspot.com/">education</a>al researcher and a qualified teacher, specializing in higher <a href="http://usnationaleducation.blogspot.com/">education</a> in the United Kingdom. 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