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October 2009

Issue 18 Editors' Note

 By Last Exit Staff
 

Education

[published: October 02, 2009]

Thomas Toch

 By Keach Hagey
 

Thomas Toch is the executive director of the Association of Independent Schools of Greater Washington, a co-founder of the think tank Education Sector and an all-around go-to guy on national education policy issues. We talk to him about the arms race of escalating college tuition, the difference between cost and quality, and President Obama’s grade on education policy.

[published: October 02, 2009]

The Conscious Carnivore

 By Anne Dailey
 

If I was going to eat meat, it wasn’t enough to know where it came from. I was going to have to learn how to wield the knife myself.

[published: October 02, 2009]

Portrait of the Artist as a Building

 By Cynthia Daignault
 

The Hunter College MFA building at 41st street is a fleeting landmark of New York’s grittier past, housing a proud group of artists at the forefront of the art world’s future; but like so many other relics of weird Manhattan, it too may soon be gone.

[published: October 02, 2009]

The (Other) Crisis

 By Bryan Joiner
 

The financial crisis displayed a new model of horizontal reporting, which could save the news industry from doom.

[published: October 02, 2009]

Journalism for Justice

 By Robert Jensen
 

How journalism schools can be relevant in a world on the brink

[published: October 02, 2009]

New Standards for Evaluation: A Key to Your Grade

 By Joe Milutis
 

There has always been some ambiguity in the grading of the humanities. Until now.

[published: October 02, 2009]