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Worst of Museums for this Decade

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Now, many see the downsides, including crushing student debt along large numbers of credentialed people with few open jobs. Unlike medicine, which graduates slightly more students than residency seats, museum studies programs graduates scores more students than spaces. Like medicine, we, in effect, have few job openings.

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Reflections on the Science Center World Congress

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I heard from CEOs whose center is the only one in their entire country (Chile), educators who work with students who have never encountered a computer before entering the science center (South Africa), and web managers whose sites are locked behind federal government firewalls and draconian restrictions (Australia). Who's leading that charge?