Thoughts on the Teaching of English

As I continue working as a secondary school teacher and as a doctoral student in English education, I'll be sharing thoughts, puzzles, and anecdotes from both settings in an attempt to blur the deep and dark line between classrooms and academia.

Monday, October 6, 2008

Online @ School

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If you are reading this on a computer at a New York City public school, please click on the following link and watch what happens: http://ww...
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Monday, September 29, 2008

Full Contact Scholarship

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When I read what one theorist, Dr. Merrifield, wrote about another theorist's, Dr. Soja, book, my jaw dropped in ecstatic joy: "May...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Report Cards and Soda Pop

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School isn't really about school. It's a place to learn things so that when you are not in school you can live a thoughtful and comp...
Sunday, September 14, 2008

Scholars Inside Invisible Boxes, Writing on Mirrors

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In a foreword to Narratives of Social Justice Teaching , Ruth Vinz describes a sixth grade classroom in which—at the room’s center—is a bo...
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Monday, July 14, 2008

The Myth of Readership

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G raduate students and I recently began a course together called Critical Approaches to Literature.   It’s one of simplest pleasures I kno...
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Saturday, July 5, 2008

Pedagogy + Politics

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The professoriate is losing its radicals, the New York Times reported recently , and new professors are more moderate than their predecess...
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Thursday, July 3, 2008

The Divorce of Reading and Writing

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I’ve become hypersensitive to a term recently that gets floated in education discussions. It seems used with lightness and universal compreh...
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