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About the Saxifrage School
The Saxifrage School Outline Part I: The How Must Come From the Why
The Saxifrage School Outline Part II: No Ideas / but in Things: the name of Saxifrage
The Saxifrage School Outline Part III: Four economic principles on behalf of $1,155,399,183,445
The Saxifrage School Collection of Writing (on Medium)
Founder Tim Cook Interviewed on WESA, 90.5 "Essential Pittsburgh"
Founder Tim Cook on WESA, 90.5 "Speaking Volumes"
A New Model? - Inside Higher Ed 8/7/2012
What College Should Be - Post Gazette 7/30/2012 
...Penn Ave HQ by PopCity 6/12/2012
The Bloomfield-Garfield Bulletin 6/1/2012
Dinner/Lecture Series - Northside Chronicle 4/12/12
Feature Article - PittNews 10/1/2011
...in Millvale by PopCity 7/20/2011
Feature Article - Northside Chronicle 6/9/2011
Feature Article - Post Gazette 6/5/2011
Edupunks Guide: Start-Up Open Ed List 
Collaborator - Mattress Factory Museum "Neighborhoods" Exhibit
EduPunks' Atlas of Lifelong Learning

Here's a few of the things we've been reading along the way...

Books
The Making of a College (Hampshire College)
Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community
The Students of Deep Springs College
Shop Class as Soul Craft by Matthew Crawford
A History of American Higher Education
History of Higher Education in Western Pennsylvania
Shantyboat by Harlan Hubbard
What Are People For? by Wendell Berry
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
Pedagogy of Freedom by Paulo Freire
We Make the Road by Walking by Freire, Horton, and Gaventa
Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses by Arum and Roksa
Higher Education? by Hacker and Dreifus
DIY U by Anya Kamenetz
Generation Debt by Anya Kamenetz
Lessons Learned Reflections of a University President by William Bowen
Crisis on Campus by Mark C. Taylor
The Heart of Higher Education: A Call to Renewal by Palmer, Zajonc, and Scribner
The Dark Side of the Ivory Tower by Sloan and Fisher
Not for Profit by Martha Nussbaum
Higher Education and the American Dream by Marvin Lazerson
Twentieth Century Education: Elite to Mass to Universal by Martin Trow
The Lost Soul of Higher Education by Ellen Schreker
Our Underachieving Colleges by Derek Bok

Articles
Tools for Living, Chroncile for Higher Education (2012)
Essay by Caroline Bird, Journalist (1975)
Tuition Inflation Statistics (FinAid.org, 2007)
For Most People, College is Waste of Time (WSJ Article, 2008)
Trends in College Pricing (Collegeboard, 2008)
In the Basement of the Ivory Tower (The Atlantic, June 2008)
Most Expensive Colleges for 2009-2010 (CampusGrotto.com, 2009)
The True Cause of College Tuition Inflation? (NYT Freakonomics Blog, 2009)
The College Calculation (NYT, 9/27/09)
Learning by Degrees (The New Yorker 6/7/2010)
Share of Recreation Spending Increasing (NYT 7/8/10)
Why Did 17 Million Students Go To College? (The Chronicle 10/20/2010)
Peter Thiel: We’re in a Bubble and It’s Not the Internet. It’s Higher Education. (Techcrunch, 4/10/11)
Bad Education (N+1, 4/25/2011)
The University Has No Clothes (NYT Magazine 5/1/2011)
Faulty Towers: The Crisis in Higher Education (5/4/2011)
Envisioning a Post-Campus American (The Atlantic, 2/13/2012)
Why do so many Americans drop out of college? (3/29/2012)
Attrition and the Year of the MOOC (6/3/2012)
The Rhetoric of MOOCs (6/23/2012)
How Coursera Will School Us All (8/8/2012)
The College-Cost Calamity
Tribute to Bill Watterson, Creator of Calvin & Hobbes
The Case for Working With Your Hands, Matthew Crawford
How the $1.2 Trillion Debt is Crippling Students, Parents, and the Economy; Forbes
The Student Loan Debt Crisis in Perspective, Milliman
Student Loan Delinquencies Surges, Fed. Reserve Bank of St. Louis
The New College Campus, NYT

Publications/Websites
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Inside Higher Ed
NEA Higher Education Publications
Higher Ed Jobs
The New Public University by John Brewer
A New Vision of the the Public University
DIY U Blog
Hack Education
TedEd
Learning, Freedom and the Web
UnCollege
Personal MBA
Hungry Academy
JumpstartLab
Flatiron School
Pew Survey on the Future of Higher Ed (8/27/2012)


Other folks doing important work...

Organizations
Center for College Affordability and Productivity
Northeast Conference on College Cost Accounting
The Delta Cost Project
The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
Burlington College 
 3rd Ward
Hacker School
Enstitute
General Assembly
Skillshare
Degreed
Minerva Project
Beaver Brook School


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