By Jenny Ortiz I recently spent some time with a little game known as Dead Rising 2. In two hours I killed 543 zombies. No, no, don't applaud. This is an low number for any gamer. To be fair, I had a stack of midterms whispering to...
By P.D. Lesko When I taught, there was always the inevitable end of the year scramble to see who would get summer teaching work. It was brutal. Feelings were always.
NYSUT, an AFT/NEA affiliate, organized the 1,000 part-time faculty at Pace University in 2004. I wrote about Pace's adjunct faculty union and its trials and tribulations here. The bottom line.
By Dorinda Fox Disclaimer #1: I could never be an elementary school teacher. When I go to my seven-year-old daughter's class 20 children seem like 100 children. I cannot get out of the classroom fast enough. All 20 of them are short, they run faster than...
By Randy Eldridge Ok, I admit it. I'm 42 and I use Facebook. A lot. Maybe even too much. I was never on Myspace or any other social networking site.
By Bruce A. Johnson, Ph.D., MBA If you have students who have done exceptionally well on a class assignment or they have exceeded all expectations for participation in class discussions,.
In his recent (2009) book Designing the Smart Organization author Roland Deiser primarily focuses on learning in the corporate environment. In fact, one of his starting points is the claim that traditional models of education (such as those that happen in classrooms) are too limited in both...
It's almost May. The weather has changed and it's making me think ahead. I'm already planning my meager summer vacation. Most of this summer I'll be desperately working 8 and.
by Claudia Dreifus While the news media has been riveted by this summer’s Congressional investigation of the financial practices of for-profit colleges, two important financial stories focused on non-profit colleges.
So…I've been blogging on adjuncts and writing for a year now, and as I start my second year, I want to look back over what I've seen, what I've learned, and what it seems to mean. As I chew them over, these reflections have coalesced into...
