Category Archives: Education

It's Kind of Sad How Wistful This Makes Me

Posted on October 13, 2010 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Eileen Reynolds, writing at The Book Bench, offers a brief review of Grammar-Land: Grammar in Fun for the Children of Schoolroom-shire, which was originally published in the 1880s by M. L. Nesbitt and which The British Library has recently issued … Continue reading →

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Fragments of Evolving Manhood: Thinking About Pornography 5

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

[Edited slightly on 10/12 to correct some inconsistencies.] I’m looking at Playboy’s Miss October for 1995 and I’m trying to remember what it was like to see pictures of naked women for the first time. My brother and I were … Continue reading →

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If I Go Crazy Now Will You Still Wait for Superman?

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Jeff Fecke

The public schools are awful. We are told this over and over, again and again, by politicians of both parties. They are terrible. They fail students. They are the reason America is not competitive. They are leaving children behind. Teachers … Continue reading →

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The Politics of Education

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

This is from the “Readings” section in the August 2010 issue of Harper’s, and I have been reading it over trying to decide what frightens me most about it. The content of education is always, always, political and there will … Continue reading →

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I Have No Idea If Ken Howell Should Have Been Fired Or Not

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Ampersand

[Crossposted on “Alas” and on “TADA.”] An adjunct professor who taught courses on Catholicism at the University of Illinois has lost his teaching job there, and he claims it is a violation of his academic freedom. Kenneth Howell was told … Continue reading →

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Reader, I Married Her

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Tony Judt, a well-known historian, has written an engaging essay called “Girls! Girls! Girls!” for NYRBlog, The New York Review of Books blog, about how our stance towards sexual behavior on (and, by implication, off) campus has changed over the … Continue reading →

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Sexism in the Technical Writing Classroom

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

I have a three or four sets of technical writing papers to grade this weekend–I am teaching two sections this semester–and I was thinking to get started tonight, but I can’t bear the thought right now of having to deal … Continue reading →

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Scott Galloway Speaks for Me in So Many Ways

Posted on February 24, 2010 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

Like Kittenloss said in her or his comment on DeadSpin, where I found this story–thanks to my friend Amy King–I expected, based on the title, “NYU Business School Professor Has Mastered the Art of Email Flaming,” to side with the … Continue reading →

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I Love Big Principal

Posted on February 18, 2010 by Jeff Fecke

So your kid’s school district has given your kid a laptop to study on. Great idea! They can use them to work on homework, do research, and make multimedia presentations. And they come with webcams — which lets students talk … Continue reading →

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Why I Hate Grading Papers – Part 2

Posted on December 18, 2009 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

One word: plagiarism. I spend a great deal of time at the beginning of the semester, on the first day actually, talking about it, explaining it and making sure my students understand my policy, which is: If I catch you … Continue reading →

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