Category Archives: Education

This Week’s Cartoon: “Edu-Gangsters”

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Jen Sorensen

As the daughter of teachers, I find myself more incensed by what’s happening in Wisconsin than I’ve been about anything in a while — and there’s been plenty to get upset about. Last week’s coldhearted maneuver by the Wisconsin GOP was bad enough, and then that vapid, braying dipstick Sarah Palin — the opposite of […] Continue reading →

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What Are You Actually Paying For When You Pay For an Education?

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

So the two separate but related discussion we’ve been having about teacher’s unions and student performance have started me thinking about a question that I wonder about a lot: What is the product that you think you are paying for … Continue reading →

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Disturbing Statistics about Remedial Students at Community Colleges

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Since I teach at one of the largest community colleges in the nation, I was disturbed but not surprised by the fact that, according to an article in The New York Times, by Lisa W. Foderaro, “CUNY Adjusts Amid Tide … Continue reading →

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“Between the 1930s and the year 2000…only 32 novels were translated from Arabic into Hebrew.”

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

From a post by Olivia Snaije, Arabic and Hebrew: The Politics of Literary Translation, on the blog called Publishing Perspectives, and it is a shameful statistic if I ever saw one, almost as bad as the fact that less than … Continue reading →

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Teaching Cornelius Eady’s “Brutal Imagination”

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

One of the projects I have set myself for this tenth year after the September 11 attacks on New York City and Washington DC is to read all the books of poems I own that were published in 2001. I … Continue reading →

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Identity, Class Politics, and the Burgis

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Jack Stephens

Originally posted on my blog The Mustard Seed. My lifelong friend (since 1st grade ya’ll!) and activists and organizer in the Filipino American community, Carlo, recently posted a piece on his blog on Asian American Studies (specifically at San Francisco … Continue reading →

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Arizona Orders Tucson to End Mexican-American Studies Program – NYTimes.com

Posted on January 8, 2011 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

As often happens, the Times used different headlines for the print and online versions of this article. The online version reads, “Rift in Arizona as Latino Class Is Found Illegal.” The print version, on the other hand, reads, “Citing ‘Brainwashing,’ Arizona … Continue reading →

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Eating Lunch While I Wait for Students and Think about Writing and Character

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

So it’s a turkey and Muenster cheese sandwich, a half pound of tomato-feta-and-cucumber salad, a brownie for dessert and pecking away a few sentences at a time here while I wait for students from my freshman composition class to come … Continue reading →

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Cathleen P. Black Is New Schools Chancellor in New York

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

From the article on NYTimes.com: “Ms. Black, at the news conference on Tuesday where she was introduced, made no pretense of having any experience in education.” I really do understand the value of having a schools chancellor with a strong … Continue reading →

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On Digital Technology and the Generation Gap

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

So last week I started preparing my freshman composition classes for the documented essay they will have to write. Teaching research and documentation has always been my least favorite part of teaching writing, primarily because I find so much resistance … Continue reading →

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