Category Archives: Culture of Academia
The other “lost generation”
In a technological world in which all news is almost instantaneously old news, I have a feeling that what went down at UC Davis on Friday, November 18th will stay fresh in our minds for some time. For posterity, the … Continue reading
On that whole subsidy thing
…you cannot really meaningfully compare across universities this way because their internal structures vary so much. Directly comparing Ohio State to Minnesota to Washington on these figures doesn’t tell you much of anything at all.
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The reply to the WPA-L list that never made it…
Even if we had the funding and support to correct the labor issues our discipline faces, there are still many instructors who see their job as instructing students in producing shiny, polished, finished drafts. As long as this emphasis in product remains firmly entrenched within literacy education, plagiarism will be going no where.
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Boys, Girls, and Experience in the Classroom
Dialogue is incredibly potent in terms of being able to open a productive space to work in simply because “difference” produces raw material to work with.
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A quote on my mind the past couple months…
…at no matter what risk.
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Nailing THE question right on the head.
And yet…this is the question that I fear we often forget to ask.
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Textbooks in the classroom: a few thoughts.
A few harmless thoughts on what I like to think of as the “military-industrial complex of academia:” textbooks and their publishers.
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Five areas of attention for the next 50 years in education, educational research.
Five areas we should focus on for the next 50 years.
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The Job Market Myth
Simply put: what goes on in the classroom is a small, insignificant part of very large and complex equation that results in gainful employment upon leaving college.
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Another day, another school shooting.
As much as we try to put on our game faces and head back into our classrooms fearless in the face of danger, every time a student dies in a classroom, we’re reminded that somehow, something is going on that we don’t understand and have very little control over. It pulls the rug out from under us. And for many of us, the bruises we get each time this happens never seem to have a chance to heal before it happens again.
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