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Flashcards: Show Students How to Use Them Correctly

tudents love flashcards. But if they have a bunch of index cards in front of them and make flashcards by just copying text from the text or the web and then...

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What Are the Federal Budget Effects of the Corporate Tax Rate Cut?

Contributing Author: Mark Persellin When the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) was enacted, the Trump administration (and others) asserted that the legislation would not add to the Federal deficit. The U.S. Department of Treasury argued that the TCJA would be, at worst, revenue...

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Virtual Currency Transactions: Revised IRS FAQ And Enforcement Activities

Contributing Author: James C Young In Notice 2014–21 (2014–16 I.R.B. 938), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) provided some basic answers to questions taxpayers were asking about virtual currency (also called cryptocurrency) like Bitcoin or Ethereum. Although virtual currency operates like “real” currency in some environments (e.g.,...

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The Business Of A Private Foundation

Contributing Author: William A Raabe The 2018 Budget Act (signed into law on February 9, 2018) included an interesting exception to the long-established rule that a private foundation cannot own an operating for-profit business. SWFT Volume...

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Start with the STUDENTS rather than the discipline

Start with the students rather than the discipline: this is the 3rd principle from Ken Bain’s book, “What the Best College Teachers Do” (pp. 110-112): …the best teachers start with something that, as...

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What Do Old Polar Bears and Great Teachers Have in Common? They Know How to Break the Ice!

Class Ice Breakers Polar bears break the ice to survive. Teachers break the ice to thrive. Join this interactive, high-energy webinar and explore ways to use icebreakers and topic starters to socialize,...

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Where To Find Images You Can Use In Your Teaching

Many faculty like to use photos in their presentations, but finding images that are open to the public is difficult and of course we want to model to our students the ethical...

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Why Don’t People Respond to Your Emails?

Students know how it feels: you spend hours crafting the perfect email—and then nothing. You refresh and refresh, check on your phone, laptop, and desktop. We know how it feels. Here are three...

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