Tidbits on May 9, 2011
Bob Jensen at Trinity University

This week I made a special photograph file of some of my favorite bird pictures
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Birds/Set01/BirdsSet01.htm 

Here's Bob Jensen hunting for wild women at Arapahoe Basin Ski Resort back in his hunting days
I got an MBA from Denver University and simultaneously worked for Ernst & Ernst in Denver
My 1948 Green Chevy was about 13 years old at the time --- an oldie but goodie
Before leaving for Stanford I traded it in on a better coed chaser --- a 1957 Red Oldsmobile Convertible

April 28, 2011 message from Ben Plummer

Bob,

I gave a talk to the Audubon Group here in San Antonio. I send these selected pictures to show the unique and colorful kingfishers that we found. The lilac breasted roller is featured in pictures touting the interesting tours of Krueger Park.

Ben

 White Mountain News --- http://www.whitemtnews.com/

Tidbits on May 9, 2011
Bob Jensen

For earlier editions of Tidbits go to http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
For earlier editions of New Bookmarks go to http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm 

Click here to search Bob Jensen's web site if you have key words to enter --- Search Site.
For example if you want to know what Jensen documents have the term "Enron" enter the phrase Jensen AND Enron. Another search engine that covers Trinity and other universities is at http://www.searchedu.com/.

Bob Jensen's past presentations and lectures --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/resume.htm#Presentations   

Bob Jensen's Threads --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm

Bob Jensen's Home Page is at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/

Online Video, Slide Shows, and Audio
In the past I've provided links to various types of music and video available free on the Web. 
I created a page that summarizes those various links --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm

Explorations@scripps [iTunes] http://explorations.ucsd.edu/explorations@scripps/

Video
Ray Kurzweil, Futurist: 10 Questions About What’s Coming Next (Technology) --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/04/ray_kurzweil_futurist.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Video
The Wisdom of Carl Sagan Animated --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/04/the_wisdom_of_carl_sagan_animated.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Video
Sartre, Heidegger, Nietzsche: Three Philosophers in Three Hours --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/04/sartre_heidegger_nietzsche_three_philosophers_in_three_hours.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Video
Spy Magazine (1986-1998) Now Online --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/04/spy_magazine_1986-1998_now_online.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%2

Video
“Jersey Shore” in the Style of Oscar Wilde --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/04/jersey_shore_in_the_style_of_oscar_wilde_.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Video
Fire Ants Create Life Raft in 100 Seconds Flat --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/04/fire_ants_form_life_rafts_in_real_time.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Video
Climbing an antenna higher than the Sears Tower ---
http://www.liveleak.com/player?a=config%26item_token=07b_1284580365%26embed=1
I find it hard to believe that there's not a safety tube for climbers to protect against wind and rain. Also it would seem that a tube could have more safety devices such as a safety line slider.

50 Classic Russian Films (Including Tarkovsky’s Finest) Now Online --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/05/50_classic_russian_films.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Thank You Soldiers (Tusing Elementary) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=5pfBUUZNbFM
 

Free music downloads --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm

Celebrate Carnegie Hall Anniversary with Jascha Heifetz Playing Tchaikovsky --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/05/carnegie_hall_celebrates_120_years_today.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Rap Video
Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two  --- https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/12f9cd7161794568

Baby Hummingbird as a Pet --- http://www.wimp.com/babyhummingbird/

Why do American workers outsource their own jobs? ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYaZ57Bn4pQ

How Great Thou Art (Hymn) --- http://www.openmyeyeslord.net/UltimateFreedom.htm

Web outfits like Pandora, Foneshow, Stitcher, and Slacker broadcast portable and mobile content that makes Sirius look overpriced and stodgy ---
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2009/tc20090327_877363.htm?link_position=link2

TheRadio (my favorite commercial-free online music site) --- http://www.theradio.com/
Slacker (my second-favorite commercial-free online music site) --- http://www.slacker.com/
Gerald Trites likes this international radio site --- http://www.e-radio.gr/
Songza:  Search for a song or band and play the selection --- http://songza.com/
Also try Jango --- http://www.jango.com/?r=342376581
Sometimes this old guy prefers the jukebox era (just let it play through) --- http://www.tropicalglen.com/
And I listen quite often to Soldiers Radio Live --- http://www.army.mil/fieldband/pages/listening/bandstand.html
Also note U.S. Army Band recordings --- http://bands.army.mil/music/default.asp

Bob Jensen listens to music free online (and no commercials) --- http://www.slacker.com/ 

Photographs and Art

American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works - Publications ---
http://www.conservation-us.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageId=491

The National Gallery: 30 Highlight Paintings http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/explore-the-paintings/30-highlight-paintings/ 

To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America (photographs) --- http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2011/ault/

Princeton University Library Digital Collections: Lorenzo Homar Collection (graphics arts) ---
http://diglib.princeton.edu/xquery?_xq=getCollection&_xsl=collection&_pid=gc151-homar

AIGA Design Archives (graphics arts) --- http://designarchives.aiga.org/#/home

Graphic Masters II: American Art --- http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/graphicmasters2/index.html

Housing Association of the Delaware Valley Photographs --- http://digital.library.temple.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2Fp245801coll13

The Photographs of Francis Blake (19th Century History) --- http://www.masshist.org/photographs/blake.cfm

Robert W. Krueger Collection (20th Century) --- http://www.chipublib.org/images/krueger/index.ph

Repeat Photography Site for The James J. Hanks Photographs, 1927-1928 http://www6.nau.edu/library/sca/exhibits/hanks/index.cfm

Ludwig-Svenson Studio Collection (photographs) --- http://digitalcollections.uwyo.edu:8180/luna/servlet/ahc-ludwig~1~1

Lafayette College Archives Photograph Collection --- http://digital.lafayette.edu/collections/historicalphotos

Long Trail Photographs (the Green Mountains of Vermont) http://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/getCollection.xql?title=Long%20Trail%20Photographs 
Oldest Long Distance Hiking Trail in the United States

New York Foundation for the Arts: For Artists --- http://www.nyfa.org/level1.asp?id=1

Three Fragments of a Lost Tale: Sculpture and Story by John Frame [iTunes] http://www.huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary_02.aspx?id=8690

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife --- http://www.dfw.state.or.us/

Santa Fe National Forest --- http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/sfe/index.html

Flight Global (aircraft) --- http://www.flightglobal.com/home/default.aspx

Bob Jensen's threads on history, literature and art ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#History

Online Books, Poems, References, and Other Literature
In the past I've provided links to various types electronic literature available free on the Web. 
I created a page that summarizes those various links --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm

Witness to the Early American Experience --- http://maass.nyu.edu/

RIP Arthur Laurents, Writer of West Side Story --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/05/rip_arthur_laurents.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Free Online Textbooks, Videos, and Tutorials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Free Tutorials in Various Disciplines --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials
Edutainment and Learning Games --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Edutainment
Open Sharing Courses --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

Now in Another Tidbits Document
Political Quotations on May 9, 2011
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2011/TidbitsQuotations050911.htm          

Peter G. Peterson Website on Deficit/Debt Solutions ---
http://www.pgpf.org/

Bob Jensen's health care messaging updates --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Health.htm

"Why Windows 7 May be Microsoft's Last PC Operating System," by Robert Cringeley, MIT's Technology Review, April 28, 2011 ---
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/guest/26712/?nlid=4415

The University of Texas System released data Thursday designed to help the system's regents gauge the productivity of faculty members, The Texas Tribune reported -- one part of an accountability push that has concerned many professors and troubled some lawmakers. The massive spreadsheet -- which system officials insisted was raw and unverified, and should be treated as a draft -- contained numerous data points about all individual professors, including their total compensation, tenure status, total course enrollments, and information about research awards. A similar effort this spring at Texas A&M University -- also undertaken in response to pressure from Gov. Rick Perry -- created a stir there.

"Release of Faculty-Productivity Data Roils U. of Texas," by Audrey Williams June, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 6, 2011 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/Release-of/127439/

Issues in Computing a College's Cost of Degrees Awarded and "Worth" of Professors (including discussions of the Texas A&M cost allocation study) ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#CostAccounting

Why do American workers outsource their own jobs? ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYaZ57Bn4pQ

I wonder how many professors are outsourcing their research in the same manner?

May 3, 2011 reply from Richard Campbell

I went to www.elance.com  -
and searched for people to bid on "accounting research" jobs and got over 10,000 hits. 

"Teaching Carnival 4.9," by Jill Morris, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 2, 2011 ---
http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/teaching-carnival-4-9/33127?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

Bob Jensen's threads on Tools and Tricks of the Trade are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm

Regulations of over 300 Federal government agencies
Regulations.gov ---  http://www.regulations.gov/

Accounting Doctoral Programs

PQ = Professionally Qualified under AACSB standards
AQ = Academically Qualified under AACSB standards

May 3, 2011 message to Barry Rice from Bob Jensen

Hi Barry,

Faculty without doctoral degrees who meet the AACSB PQ standards are still pretty much second class citizens and will find the tenure track hurdles to eventual full professorship very difficult except in colleges that pay poorly at all levels.

There are a number of alternatives for a CPA/CMA looking into AACSB AQ alternatives in in accounting in North American universities:

The best alternative is to enter into a traditional accounting doctoral program at an AACSB university. Virtually all of these in North America are accountics doctoral programs requiring 4-6 years of full time onsite study and research beyond the masters degree. The good news is that these programs generally have free tuition, room, and board allowances. The bad news is that students who have little interest in becoming mathematicians and statisticians and social scientists need not apply --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Theory01.htm#DoctoralPrograms 

As a second alternative Central Florida University has an onsite doctoral program that is stronger in the accounting and lighter in the accountics. Kennesaw State University has a three-year executive DBA program that has quant-lite alternatives, but this is only available in accounting to older executives who enter with PQ-accounting qualifications. It also costs nearly $100,000 plus room and board even for Georgia residents. The DBA is also not likely to get the graduate into a R1 research university tenure track.

As a third alternative there are now some online accounting doctoral programs that are quant-lite and only take three years, but these diplomas aren't worth the paper they're written on --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm#CommercialPrograms  Cappella University is a very good online university, but its online accounting doctoral program is nothing more than a glorified online MBA degree that has, to my knowledge, no known accounting researchers teaching in the program. Capella will not reveal its doctoral program faculty to prospective students. I don't think the North American academic job market yet recognizes Capella-type and Nova-type doctorates except in universities that would probably accept the graduates as PQ faculty without a doctorate.

As a fourth alternative there are some of the executive accounting doctoral programs in Europe, especially England, that really don't count for much in the North American job market.

As a fifth alternative, a student can get a three-year non-accounting PhD degree from a quality doctoral program such as an economics or computer science PhD from any of the 100+ top flagship state/provincial universities in North America. Then if the student also has PQ credentials to teach in an accounting program, the PhD graduate can enroll in an accounting part-time "Bridge Program" anointed by the AACSB --- http://www.aacsb.edu/conferences_seminars/seminars/bp.asp 

As a sixth alternative, a student can get a three-year law degree in addition to getting PQ credentials in some areas where lawyers often get into accounting program tenure tracks. The most common specialty for lawyers is tax accounting. Some accounting departments also teach business law and ethics using lawyers.

Hope this helps.

Bob Jensen

PS
Case Western has a very respected accounting history track in its PhD program, but I'm not certain how many of the accountics hurdles are relaxed except at the dissertation stage.

May 3, 2011 reply from Jim Martin

Barry,

I have been developing a new topic on the MAAW site - "Advice for
Accounting Ph.D. Students and New Faculty. It includes a bibliography,
some blog notes, and several summaries. Your former student might find it
useful.
 

http://maaw.info/AdviceforAccountingPhDstudentsMain.htm

"The Business School Tuition Bubble," by Michael Ryall, Harvard Business School Blog, May 2. 2011 --- Click Here
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/05/the_business_school_tuition_bubble.html?referral=00563&cm_mmc=email-_-newsletter-_-daily_alert-_-alert_date&utm_source=newsletter_daily_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alert_date

Edutainment via Fiction Writing

'May 7, 2011 message from Larry Crumbley,

Bob, you may wish to update your accounting novel material. My tax Ultimate Ripoff novel is now in the fourth edition and I am now revising it. My cost accounting novel Costly Reflections in A Midas Mirror, is in the 3th edition at Carolina Academic Press. They also have published later editions of my auditing and forensic accounting novels. LSU press will have my Sports Marketing out shortly. Give me your mailing address and I will send you a couple.
Larry

May 8, 2011 reply from Bob Jensen

Hi Larry,

My forays into fiction so bad that even I won't share them --- and I share almost everything I write. My one exception is my "play"  on eduarbitraging at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/acct5341/speakers/muppets.htm 
Now you know why I won't share my other fiction attempts.


I'm glad you're still doing well with your mystery/detective novels.


My threads on edutainment via accounting fiction writing are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/acct5341/speakers/muppets.htm#Accounting 
The module on the books by Larry Crumbley needs updating. I will add your listing of teaching innovation references at
http://www.bus.lsu.edu/accounting/faculty/lcrumbley/innovate.html 

 

Also see
http://www.journalofaccountancy.com/Issues/2002/Jan/BusinessBookshelf.htm

 

I also need to update my page on Accounting Novels in general at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNovels.htm
If you have any suggestions for things I should add here beyond what are noted above, please let me know.

Respectfully,
Bob Jensen
 

Video
Ray Kurzweil, Futurist: 10 Questions About What’s Coming Next (Technology) --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/04/ray_kurzweil_futurist.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

International Center for the History of Electronic Games --- http://www.thestrong.org/online-collections/icheg/

Bob Jensen's threads on edutainment games ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Edutainment

Most of these public speaking words of advice seem rather obvious
http://www.presentationskillsadvice.com/
But after spending 40 years of sitting through some pretty bad presentations at conferences, the  words of advice in the site recommended by Dee LaVerne should've been heeded by many (most?) of the speakers, including me when I was a speaker.


Be a bit careful about some advice. For example, to what extent should visual aids really be the center of your presentation? Rapid succession of PowerPoint screens is a bad idea. Also leaving a "dead screen" lighted while you're talking about something else entirely is a bad idea. But I like a visual aid when it relates to what a speaker is talking about at the moment.


Probably the most important word of advice is to be an enthusiastic speaker about your topic --- show the audience your passion for having learned what you are now teaching. The best role model for enthusiasm and passion that I've ever encountered is Amy Dunbar. This is one reason, the main reason, why she wins all-university teaching awards.


Perhaps one thing you can do for your students, especially your doctoral students, is to have them study a really great video presentation with the focus being on the presentation itself rather than the content. Also focus on where even a really fine presentation could've been improved.


One video that would be great for students to study for presentation skills would be Bob Kaplan's plenary presentation video at
http://commons.aaahq.org/posts/d2f87b6f7d
There could've been a bit more humor, but then Bob did not have a whole lot of time for humor in this fully-packed presentation. He did have some clever humor.


Humor can also be overdone and too distracting.


Lastly it's important to note that a speaker who violates all the great advice can sometimes really pull a presentation off relative to a speaker who follows all the rules. For me enthusiasm and passion tend to trump all the other rules as long as the content itself is valuable to me for my own learning purposes.


One time there was an AAA Plenary Session from one of these guys who makes a living consulting with executives about how to improve their public speaking. He started out great, but it soon became obvious that he had nothing whatsoever to relate about accounting itself. After about ten minutes a third or more of the audience had sneaked out of the ballroom. The rest of us sat politely hoping he would make it short.


At AAA plenary sessions I used to sit in the front row with my video camera and tape every session (the tapes are now available at the University of Mississippi Accounting History Library). But before the above "professional" speaker commenced, Tracey S. warned me that this particular speaker did not want to be taped since he made a lot of money giving this speech over and over again at executive conferences. When  he finished giving the speech I was ever so grateful to Tracey for preventing me from wasting my video cartridge on this presentation that was all form and no substance.

Bob Jensen's threads on Tools and Tricks of the Trade ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm

Are profit-seeking corporations hopeless sociopaths?
"Business-School Leaders Debate Corporate Responsibility," by Katherine Mangan, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 1, 2011 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/Business-School-Leaders-Debate/127361/

The nation's financial meltdown and the sweeping regulatory overhaul it sparked are providing business schools with plenty of sobering teaching material about ethics, corporate social responsibility, and the unintended consequences of financial reform, according to participants at the annual meeting here of AACSB International: the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

The meeting, which wrapped up on Saturday, included spirited discussions about the role that business schools play in society and the lessons they should be passing on to the next generation of corporate movers and shakers.

More than 1,300 business educators and leaders from 53 countries and territories attended the meeting of the association, which accredits 620 institutions worldwide.

"This isn't just a teachable moment about the financial crisis," said Robert Glenn Hubbard, dean of Columbia Business School and a former chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush. "It's a teachable moment about how you connect the dots" so another crisis doesn't occur.

In addition to offering courses in corporate governance and ethics, business schools are struggling to educate students about the financial-overhaul legislation, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (HR 4173), that was enacted last year.

Many of the business educators here were skeptical about the value of the legislation, which mandated comprehensive regulation of financial markets and greater openness about complex investments called derivatives.

Franklin R. Edwards, director of the Center for the Study of Futures Markets at Columbia Business School, called the legislation "a hodgepodge of regulatory initiatives" that puts regulators in charge, despite their failure to protect consumers in the past.

"If I had to grade it as a professor, I'd be giving it a D-plus," he said. Misgivings About Graduates' Behavior

In another session, Ira A. Jackson, a visiting scholar at the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said business schools should feel "humbled" by the role they may have played in the crisis. Their former students were among the people selling "grenade loans" to their competitors, hoping they would blow up on them, he said.

"Those were our graduates. Why weren't they figuring out how to help working-class people afford homes in a responsible way?" he said.

Arguing against him in the debate-style panel was Aneel G. Karnani, an associate professor of strategy at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Mr. Karnani explained why he dismisses the idea that corporations should be socially responsible as "useless" and even "dangerous."

Noting the slew of angry letters he received after an essay he wrote appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Karnani said that arguing against the idea that companies have a duty to act in the public interest "is kind of like coming out against motherhood and apple pie." Putting the Onus on Regulators

Mr. Karnani said business schools should stop demonizing government and regulation and recognize that the fiscal crisis was caused not by a lack of ethics but by a lack of regulation. Publicly held businesses should just follow rules set by the government and not try to solve the world's social problems if doing so cuts into their profits, he argued.

He added that corporate social responsibility is "fundamentally undemocratic" because company officials decide what values they are going to promote instead of letting the government and voters decide.

Mr. Jackson countered that students are demanding that business schools take a more proactive approach.

Continued in article

Islamic and Social Responsibility Accounting ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Theory01.htm#IslamicAccounting

Triple Bottom Accounting ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory02.htm#TripleBottom

"Do American Students Study Too Hard? A new documentary argues that kids these days memorize too many facts. Go figure," by James Freeman, The Wall Street Journal, April 30, 2011 ---
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703655404576292752313629990.html?mod=djemEditorialPage_t 

Young moviegoers have driven "Rio" to the top of the box office, but the film generating buzz among New Jersey parents is "Race to Nowhere." It's a response of sorts to last year's buzzed-about documentary "Waiting for 'Superman,'" which argued that ineffective schools and intransigent teachers unions are what's wrong with American education.

The new film may have arrived just in time for the New Jersey Education Association, the giant state teachers union locked in a continuing battle with Gov. Chris Christie over the cost of teachers' benefit plans. Directed by parent and first-time filmmaker Vicki Abeles, "Race to Nowhere" is marketed through a kind of partnership with local schools. The film suggests that if there are problems in American education, they are largely due to standardized tests, overambitious parents, insufficient funding, and George W. Bush. It also offers possible solutions, which include abandoning testing and grading and giving teachers more autonomy.

Ms. Abeles reports that she has been screening the film nationwide and even in numerous foreign countries. But few places have embraced it as enthusiastically as the Garden State. While in many states there are no showings currently scheduled, according to the film's website, New Jersey has 13 in the next month.

Wednesday night, about 200 people gathered to watch at the Jewish Community Center in Bergen County. Ms. Abeles, who answered questions via a Skype video connection, reports that the crowd was so small because the event was organized in just four days after another local screening had attracted 800 people to a packed auditorium. She says that the film enjoys "buy-in from a lot of stakeholders," including school superintendents and teachers.

Parents in New Jersey suburbs have received numerous emails about the film and its upcoming show times from parent-teacher associations. Ms. Abeles and the schools split the revenue from ticket sales, but the director told the crowd in Bergen County that she is holding off on a DVD retail release while she explores a possible broadcast on PBS. She also said she is moving full speed ahead to hire companies in Washington to lobby for policy changes suggested in the film.

The movie's recurring theme is that American kids are under intense pressure to succeed, forced to complete up to six hours of homework each night and therefore increasingly driven to mental illness. The movie is promoted with the tagline, "The Dark Side of America's Achievement Culture."

The dark side is illuminated with powerful anecdotes—we learn of one young California girl who, we are told, committed suicide after a disappointing grade in math. But the achievement is tougher to spot. The film reports that as hard as kids compete to win acceptance to name-brand colleges, they come out of high school without knowing much. The University of California at Berkeley, we are told, has to provide remedial education for close to half of incoming freshmen before they can handle a college course load. The film notes that American kids score poorly in international tests. If they work so hard, how do they learn so little?

One possibility is that kids aren't working as hard as Ms. Abeles believes. But even deducting a generous portion of Facebook chatter, tweeting and YouTube viewing from "homework" time, most parents would likely report that their kids have substantial assignments and a school year that seems to get longer all the time.

The film's answer, in part, is that President Bush's No Child Left Behind law forces schools to focus entirely on preparing their kids to pass annual tests tied to their state's education standards. The premise is that state governments have designed standards so poorly that kids must spend time learning useless material, or too much material, which they are then unable to retain.

It's certainly not impossible that state education bureaucracies have churned out flawed standards. And readers of this page are probably willing to consider the idea that the umpteenth federal education law might not have improved American education. But of course American kids were performing poorly on international tests long before Mr. Bush was inaugurated.

Ms. Abeles argues that U.S. education is focused too much on giving kids "things to memorize and regurgitate," instead of developing the critical thinking skills that will be most useful in solving problems and thriving later in life.

Continued in article

Jensen Comment
Let's face it. It's hazardous to K-12 students health and way too costly to expect them to graduate from high school knowing how to read and divide by fractions. This type of knowledge just is not needed from most of them, especially students aspiring to be elected to Congress.

Some Thoughts on Competency-Based Training and Education ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/competency.htm

Bob Jensen's threads on assessment are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm

Bob Jensen's threads on education controversies are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm

"Are College Business Majors Slackers (relative to other majors in the college)?" by Louis Lavelle, Business Week, April 20, 2011 ---
http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/blogs/mba_admissions/archives/2011/04/are_college_business_majors_slackers.html?link_position=link5

Jensen Comment
Or put another way, are business majors and sports basket weaving majors in a race to the bottom?

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"The Sources of Plagiarism," Inside Higher Ed, April 29, 2011 ---
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/04/29/qt#258386

A new study by Turnitin, the plagiarism detection service, has found that term paper mills account only for a small minority (15 percent) of the apparent sources of the copying. One-third of such material comes from social networks and another one-fourth from "legitimate" educational sources.

"Plagiarism Goes Social," by Marc Parry, Chronicle of Higher Education, April 28, 2011 ---
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/plagiarism-appears-to-be-going-social/31142?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

The Web is going social. And now it seems that plagiarism might be heading that way, too.

A new study found that social and user-generated Web sites are the most popular sources for student copying. Academic sites come in second, while paper mills and cheat sites are third.

A report on the findings was released today by iParadigms, creator of Turnitin, a popular plagiarism-detection service that takes uploaded student papers and checks them against various databases to pinpoint unoriginal content. For its study, the company analyzed 40 million papers submitted by high school and college students over a 10-month period.

“It shows that plagiarism in sourcing work is going the way that everything else in the world is going,” says Chris Harrick, vice president of marketing at Turnitin. “People are relying more on their peers than on experts.”

But the findings come with a big caveat: Turnitin detects “matched content,” not necessarily plagiarism. In other words, the software will flag material from a paper mill, but it will also flag legitimate stuff that is properly cited and attributed. The company leaves it up to individual professors to determine plagiarism. So there’s no way to know exactly how much of the copying highlighted in this study, outside of the material that matches content from shady sites, is actually cheating.

Continued in article

Bob Jensen's threads on plagiarism and cheating are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Plagiarism.htm

From the Scout Report on April 29, 2011

Squrl --- http://www.squrl.com/

This handy device is well named, as its primary function is to help visitors
collect interesting videos online for later "consumption". First-time
visitors will need to complete a short registration, and they can get
started saving videos from a range of sources. Visitors can also organize
playlists, and then email them to friends and colleagues. This version is
compatible with all operating systems.

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Strike --- http://www.strikeapp.com/

Who says making a "to-do" list has to be boring? Not the good people at the
ZURB, who have created the Strike application to help people "knock down"
their lists quickly and with a bit of fun. Visitors will note the bowling
alley theme as they enter the site, and they have the ability to create a
list that is stored on the web for easy access. Visitors can share their
lists with others, and they can also break down more complex lists into
smaller steps. This version is compatible with all operating systems

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Inquiry into the Central Asia Institute's financials raises questions
about oversight of charities
'Three Cups of Tea' questions remind donors to check up on charities
http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/columnist/block/2011-04-25-researching-charities.htm

Greg Mortenson and our false ideals about social change
http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2011/0425/Greg-Mortenson-and-our-false-ideals-about-social-change

The Greg Mortenson Scandal: One University's Bitter Cup of Tea
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2066239,00.html

The Greg Mortenson We Knew
http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/the_greg_mortenson_we_knew/C39/L39/

Greg Mortenson: 60 Minutes
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7363068n

Charity Navigator
http://www.charitynavigator.org/

From the Scout Report on April 22, 2011

Plnnr --- http://plnnr.com/ 

Do you have a complicated trip you need help planning? Trying to figure out to get from Florence to Dublin perhaps? The Plnnr tool can offer some sage wisdom on such an itinerary. Visitors can select from one of eighteen cities, and Plnnr will help them plan a trip with various dates, themes, and luxury levels. The themes include "outdoors", "culture", "with kids", and "The best of". Plnnr is a fun way to find a number of possible vacation options and this particular version of Plnnr is compatible with all operating systems.

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With the release of Google Map Maker, users can contribute their own
spatial knowledge
Google: Map your own neighborhood
http://news.cnet.com/8301-19882_3-20055063-250.html

Google Wants You To Complete its U.S. Map
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/04/google-maps-us-edit/

Now Users Can Help Edit Google Maps
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/04/19/now-users-can-help-edit-google-maps/

Google Map Maker
http://www.google.com/mapmaker

Railroad Maps Collection
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrhome.html

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
http://www.davidrumsey.com/

Free online textbooks, cases, and tutorials in accounting, finance, economics, and statistics --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks

Education Tutorials

Khan Academy --- http://www.khanacademy.org/

Bob Jensen's threads on general education tutorials are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#EducationResearch

Engineering, Science, and Medicine Tutorials

British Geological Survey: Learning --- http://www.bgs.ac.uk/education/home.html

Video
Ray Kurzweil, Futurist: 10 Questions About What’s Coming Next (Technology) --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/04/ray_kurzweil_futurist.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Video
The Wisdom of Carl Sagan Animated --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/04/the_wisdom_of_carl_sagan_animated.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Video
Fire Ants Create Life Raft in 100 Seconds Flat --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/04/fire_ants_form_life_rafts_in_real_time.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Princeton University Library Digital Collections: Lorenzo Homar Collection (graphics arts) ---
http://diglib.princeton.edu/xquery?_xq=getCollection&_xsl=collection&_pid=gc151-homar

Joint Committee on Atomic Energy --- http://collections.stanford.edu/atomicenergy/bin/page?forward=home

International Atomic Energy Agency --- http://www.iaea.org/

The National Academies Present: What You Need to Know About Energy --- http://needtoknow.nas.edu/energy/

AIGA Design Archives (graphics arts) --- http://designarchives.aiga.org/#/home

Graphic Masters II: American Art --- http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/graphicmasters2/index.html

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife --- http://www.dfw.state.or.us/

Santa Fe National Forest --- http://www.fs.fed.us/r3/sfe/index.html

Science at Burning Man (various science projects) ---  http://www.exploratorium.edu/tv/index.php?cmd=browse&project=102

Explorations@scripps [iTunes] http://explorations.ucsd.edu/explorations@scripps/

Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing --- http://caat.jhsph.edu/

Bob Jensen's threads on free online science, engineering, and medicine tutorials are at --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Science

Social Science and Economics Tutorials

U.S. Census Bureau: Random Samplings --- http://blogs.census.gov/

Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Consumer Protection --- http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/index.shtml

Future of Aviation Advisory Committee --- http://www.dot.gov/faac/

Natural Resources Defense Council: Smarter Living --- http://www.nrdc.org/living/

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife --- http://www.dfw.state.or.us/

Creative Placemaking [changes coming to cities and towns] http://www.nea.gov/pub/CreativePlacemaking-Paper.pdf

Cities and Climate Change: Global Report on Human Settlements --- http://www.unhabitat.org/pmss/listItemDetails.aspx?publicationID=3085

Science at Burning Man (various science projects) ---  http://www.exploratorium.edu/tv/index.php?cmd=browse&project=102

Sheepherders of Northern Nevada --- http://www.knowledgecenter.unr.edu/sheepherders/

Hmong Cultural Center (Viet Nam) --- http://www.hmongcc.org/

Regulations of over 300 Federal government agencies
Regulations.gov ---  http://www.regulations.gov/

Bob Jensen's threads on Economics, Anthropology, Social Sciences, and Philosophy tutorials are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Social

Law and Legal Studies

Regulations of over 300 Federal government agencies
Regulations.gov ---  http://www.regulations.gov/

Bob Jensen's threads on law and legal studies are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Law

Math Tutorials

Bob Jensen's threads on free online mathematics tutorials are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#050421Mathematics

History Tutorials

American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works - Publications ---
http://www.conservation-us.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageId=491

Witness to the Early American Experience --- http://maass.nyu.edu/

Nantucket Historical Association --- http://www.nha.org/

Maritime History of Massachusetts --- http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/maritime/ 

Video
The Wisdom of Carl Sagan Animated --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/04/the_wisdom_of_carl_sagan_animated.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Video
Sartre, Heidegger, Nietzsche: Three Philosophers in Three Hours --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/04/sartre_heidegger_nietzsche_three_philosophers_in_three_hours.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Video
Spy Magazine (1986-1998) Now Online --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/04/spy_magazine_1986-1998_now_online.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Video
“Jersey Shore” in the Style of Oscar Wilde --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/04/jersey_shore_in_the_style_of_oscar_wilde_.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Bob Jensen's threads on history tutorials are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#History
Also see http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm  

To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America (photographs) --- http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2011/ault/

New York Foundation for the Arts: For Artists --- http://www.nyfa.org/level1.asp?id=1

Housing Association of the Delaware Valley Photographs --- http://digital.library.temple.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2Fp245801coll13

Flight Global (aircraft) --- http://www.flightglobal.com/home/default.aspx

Children and War --- http://www.childrenandwar.org/

Mississippi History Newsletter --- http://mdah.state.ms.us/pubs/mhn/index.html

International Center for the History of Electronic Games --- http://www.thestrong.org/online-collections/icheg/

Sheepherders of Northern Nevada --- http://www.knowledgecenter.unr.edu/sheepherders/

RIP Arthur Laurents, Writer of West Side Story --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/05/rip_arthur_laurents.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982 --- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/buckaroos/

Language Tutorials

Bob Jensen's links to language tutorials are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Languages

Music Tutorials

Bob Jensen's threads on free music tutorials are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#050421Music

Bob Jensen's threads on music performances ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm

Writing Tutorials

Bob Jensen's helpers for writers are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob3.htm#Dictionaries

Updates from WebMD --- http://www.webmd.com/

April 29, 2011

• Racial Gap in Treatment, Incidence of Cancer
• 5-Minute Screen for Signs of Autism Works in 1-Year-Olds
• Thyroid Drug Linked to Fracture Risk in Elderly
• What Are the Riskiest Food-Bacteria Combos?
• Should Adults Allow Supervised Teen Drinking?
• FDA Approves Prostate Cancer Drug
• Arthritis Patients More Likely to Be Obese
• Being Tall, Obese May Boost Risk of Blood Clots
• Drugs for Bone Loss May Also Help the Heart
• Diabetes Costs Are High for Young People

April 30, 2011

• Robot Hair-Transplant Device Gets FDA Nod
• Low Vitamin D Linked to Aggressive Breast Cancer
• Survey: Arthritis Can Hurt Quality of Life
• Avastin as Good as Lucentis for AMD Treatment
• Should Adults Allow Supervised Teen Drinking?
• Diabetes Costs Are High for Young People
• Thyroid Drug Linked to Fracture Risk in Elderly
• Racial Gap in Treatment, Incidence of Cancer
• 5-Minute Screen for Signs of Autism Works in 1-Year-Olds
• Drugs for Bone Loss May Also Help the Heart

May 2, 2011

• Secondhand Smoke Derails Quit-Smoking Efforts
• Teenage Girls Get Tans Despite Cancer Risk
• Family Meals Help Cut Risk of Childhood Obesity
• Infant Growth Spurts Tied to More Sleep
• Young in U.S. Pay No Attention to Stroke Risk
• Overdose Risk for Young Children on Prescription Pain Drugs
• Robot Hair-Transplant Device Gets FDA Nod
• Low Vitamin D Linked to Aggressive Breast Cancer
• Survey: Arthritis Can Hurt Quality of Life
• Avastin as Good as Lucentis for AMD Treatment

May 3, 2011

• Secondhand Smoke Derails Quit-Smoking Efforts
• Researchers Question Mammogram Guidelines
• Many Unaware of OTC Pain Relievers' Ingredients, Risks
• Belly Fat in Heart Patients Raises Death Risk
• Excess Weight in Middle Age Linked to Alzheimer's Disease
• Brain Size of Children Yields Clues to Autism
• Family Meals Help Cut Risk of Childhood Obesity
• Teenage Girls Get Tans Despite Cancer Risk
• Young in U.S. Pay No Attention to Stroke Risk
• Fire Walking Ritual Gives Clues to How People Bond

May 4, 2011

• Heart Bypass Surgery Rate Is Declining
• Asthma Rates on the Rise in U.S.
• Coumadin Recalled Over Potency Concern
• Atrial Fibrillation Treatment Costs, Hospitalizations Mount
• Exercise Programs Help Control Diabetes
• Recalled Grape Tomatoes in Ready-to-Eat Salads
• Survey: Too Much TV Time at Day Care Centers
• Study: Fat May Return After Liposuction
• Belly Fat in Heart Patients Raises Death Risk
• Brain Size of Children Yields Clues to Autism

May 6, 2011

• New Clues on Caffeine’s Health Benefits
• Study: Many With ADHD Can’t Control Emotions
• Infant Acetaminophen Drops to Be Discontinued
• Does Mom Want a Major Makeover?
• FDA OKs Afinitor to Treat Pancreatic Cancer
• Americans Walk and Bike More, but Just a Little
• Chemicals May Be Risky to Nail Salon Workers
• Many in U.S. No Longer Worry About Weight
• Signs of Rise in Hepatitis C Cases Among Young
• New Dosing Guidelines for Kids’ Liquid Medicines

May 7, 2011

• Infant Acetaminophen Drops to Be Discontinued
• Americans Walk and Bike More, but Just a Little
• Does Mom Want a Major Makeover?
• New Clues on Caffeine’s Health Benefits
• Study: Many With ADHD Can’t Control Emotions
• FDA OKs Afinitor to Treat Pancreatic Cancer
• Bottle Feeding at Age 2 Raises Obesity Risk
• Chemicals May Be Risky to Nail Salon Workers
• FDA Warns About Teething Medication
• Many in U.S. No Longer Worry About Weight

Nutrition and healthy eating --- http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/MY00431

USDA: Food & Nutrition Service --- http://www.fns.usda.gov/fns/

AARP Health Tools --- http://www.aarp.org/health/health_tools/

Why do American workers outsource their own jobs? ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYaZ57Bn4pQ

Forwarded by Sid and Eileen

The Israelis  and Arabs realized that, if they continued fighting, they  would someday end up destroying the whole world. So they decided to settle their dispute with an ancient practice: a duel of two, like David and Goliath.  This "duel" would be a dog  fight.

The  negotiators agreed each side would take 5 years to  develop the best fighting dog they could. The dog that won  the fight would earn its people the right to rule the disputed areas. The losing side would have to lay down its arms for good.
  
The  Arabs found the biggest, meanest Dobermans and Rottweilers in the world. They bred them together and  then crossed their offspring with the meanest Siberian wolves. They  selected only the biggest, strongest puppy of each litter, fed  it the best food and killed all the other puppies. They used  steroids and trainers in their quest for the perfect  killing machine. After the 5 years were up, they had a dog  that needed steel prison bars on its cage. Only expert trainers  could handle this incredibly nasty and ferocious beast.

When the  day of the big dog-fight finally arrived, the Israelis showed up with a very strange-looking animal, a  Dachshund that was 10 feet  long!  Everyone  at the dogfight arena felt sorry for the Israelis. No one there  seriously thought this weird, odd-looking animal stood any  chance against the growling beast over in the Arab camp. All the  bookies took one look and predicted that the Arab dog would win in less than a minute.

 

As  the cages were opened, the Dachshund slowly waddled  toward the center of the ring. The Arab dog leaped from 
its cage and charged the giant  wiener-dog.  As  he got to within an inch of the Israeli dog, the Dachshund  opened its jaws and swallowed the Arab beast whole in one  bite. There was nothing left but a small puff of fur from  the Arab killer dog's tail floating to the ground.

 

The  stunned crowd of international observers, bookies and media  personnel let out a collective gasp of disbelief  and surprise.

 

The  Arabs approached the Israelis, muttering and shaking their heads  in disbelief. "We do not understand," said their leader, "Our  top scientists and breeders worked for 5 long years with  the meanest, biggest Dobermans, Rottweilers and  Siberian wolves, and they developed an incredible killing  machine of a dog!"

 

The Israelis  replied. "Well, for 5 years, we have had a team of Jewish  plastic surgeons from Boca Raton working to  make an alligator look like a Dachshund."

Tidbits Archives --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm

Click here to search Bob Jensen's web site if you have key words to enter --- Search Site.
For example if you want to know what Jensen documents have the term "Enron" enter the phrase Jensen AND Enron. Another search engine that covers Trinity and other universities is at http://www.searchedu.com/

Find a College
College Atlas --- http://www.collegeatlas.org/
Among other things the above site provides acceptance rate percentages
Online Distance Education Training and Education --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm
For-Profit Universities Operating in the Gray Zone of Fraud  (College, Inc.) --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/HigherEdControversies.htm#ForProfitFraud

Shielding Against Validity Challenges in Plato's Cave ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TheoryTAR.htm

• With a Rejoinder from the 2010 Senior Editor of The Accounting Review (TAR), Steven J. Kachelmeier
• With Replies in Appendix 4 to Professor Kachemeier by Professors Jagdish Gangolly and Paul Williams
• With Added Conjectures in Appendix 1 as to Why the Profession of Accountancy Ignores TAR
• With Suggestions in Appendix 2 for Incorporating Accounting Research into Undergraduate Accounting Courses

What went wrong in accounting/accountics research?  ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#WhatWentWrong

The Sad State of Accountancy Doctoral Programs That Do Not Appeal to Most Accountants ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#DoctoralPrograms

AN ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTION OF RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS BY THE ACCOUNTING REVIEW: 1926-2005 ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/395wpTAR/Web/TAR395wp.htm#_msocom_1

Bob Jensen's threads on accounting theory ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm

Tom Lehrer on Mathematical Models and Statistics ---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfZWyUXn3So

Systemic problems of accountancy (especially the vegetable nutrition paradox) that probably will never be solved ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudConclusion.htm#BadNews

World Clock --- http://www.peterussell.com/Odds/WorldClock.php
Facts about the earth in real time --- http://www.worldometers.info/
Interesting Online Clock and Calendar --- http://home.tiscali.nl/annejan/swf/timeline.swf
Time by Time Zones --- http://timeticker.com/
Projected Population Growth (it's out of control) --- http://geography.about.com/od/obtainpopulationdata/a/worldpopulation.htm
         Also see http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/P/Populations.html
         Facts about population growth (video) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U
Projected U.S. Population Growth --- http://www.carryingcapacity.org/projections75.html
Real time meter of the U.S. cost of the war in Iraq --- http://www.costofwar.com/ 
Enter you zip code to get Census Bureau comparisons --- http://zipskinny.com/
Sure wish there'd be a little good news today.

Free (updated) Basic Accounting Textbook --- search for Hoyle at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks

CPA Examination --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cpa_examination
Free CPA Examination Review Course Courtesy of Joe Hoyle --- http://cpareviewforfree.com/

Rick Lillie's education, learning, and technology blog is at http://iaed.wordpress.com/

Accounting News, Blogs, Listservs, and Social Networking ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/AccountingNews.htm

Bob Jensen's Threads --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm 
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New Bookmarks --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Tidbits --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud Updates --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm

Online Books, Poems, References, and Other Literature
In the past I've provided links to various types electronic literature available free on the Web. 
I created a page that summarizes those various links --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm

Accounting program news items for colleges are posted at http://www.accountingweb.com/news/college_news.html
Sometimes the news items provide links to teaching resources for accounting educators.
Any college may post a news item.

Accountancy Discussion ListServs:

For an elaboration on the reasons you should join a ListServ (usually for free) go to   http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ListServRoles.htm

AECM (Educators)  http://pacioli.loyola.edu/aecm/  AECM is an email Listserv list which provides a forum for discussions of all hardware and software which can be useful in any way for accounting education at the college/university level. Hardware includes all platforms and peripherals. Software includes spreadsheets, practice sets, multimedia authoring and presentation packages, data base programs, tax packages, World Wide Web applications, etc Roles of a ListServ --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ListServRoles.htm

CPAS-L (Practitioners) http://pacioli.loyola.edu/cpas-l/  CPAS-L provides a forum for discussions of all aspects of the practice of accounting. It provides an unmoderated environment where issues, questions, comments, ideas, etc. related to accounting can be freely discussed. Members are welcome to take an active role by posting to CPAS-L or an inactive role by just monitoring the list. You qualify for a free subscription if you are either a CPA or a professional accountant in public accounting, private industry, government or education. Others will be denied access.

Yahoo (Practitioners)  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xyztalk This forum is for CPAs to discuss the activities of the AICPA. This can be anything  from the CPA2BIZ portal to the XYZ initiative or anything else that relates to the AICPA.

AccountantsWorld  http://accountantsworld.com/forums/default.asp?scope=1  This site hosts various discussion groups on such topics as accounting software, consulting, financial planning, fixed assets, payroll, human resources, profit on the Internet, and taxation.

Business Valuation Group BusValGroup-subscribe@topica.com  This discussion group is headed by Randy Schostag [RSchostag@BUSVALGROUP.COM]

Many useful accounting sites (scroll down) --- http://www.iasplus.com/links/links.htm

Bob Jensen's Sort-of Blogs --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/JensenBlogs.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New Bookmarks --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Tidbits --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud Updates --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm

Some Accounting History Sites

Bob Jensen's Accounting History in a Nutshell and Links --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#AccountingHistory
 

Accounting History Libraries at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) --- http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/accountancy/libraries.html
The above libraries include international accounting history.
The above libraries include film and video historical collections.

MAAW Knowledge Portal for Management and Accounting --- http://maaw.info/

Academy of Accounting Historians and the Accounting Historians Journal ---
http://www.accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/aah/

Sage Accounting History --- http://ach.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/11/3/269

A nice timeline on the development of U.S. standards and the evolution of thinking about the income statement versus the balance sheet is provided at:
"The Evolution of U.S. GAAP: The Political Forces Behind Professional Standards (1930-1973)," by Stephen A. Zeff, CPA Journal, January 2005 --- http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/105/infocus/p18.htm
Part II covering years 1974-2003 published in February 2005 --- http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/205/index.htm 

A nice timeline of accounting history --- http://www.docstoc.com/docs/2187711/A-HISTORY-OF-ACCOUNTING

From Texas A&M University
Accounting History Outline --- http://acct.tamu.edu/giroux/history.html

Bob Jensen's timeline of derivative financial instruments and hedge accounting ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudRotten.htm#DerivativesFrauds

History of Fraud in America --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/415wp/AmericanHistoryOfFraud.htm
Also see http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Fraud.htm

Professor Robert E. Jensen (Bob) http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen
190 Sunset Hill Road
Sugar Hill, NH 03586
Phone:  603-823-8482 
Email:  rjensen@trinity.edu