If you have been teaching for at least a semester, you may have noticed that students don’t do the reading we assign them, shocker, I know. So…
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When I read about the November 19, 2007 NEA study ("To Read or Not to Read") concerning the reading habits of Americans I had two reactions: First,…
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by Richard Leon Linfield I taught basic English writing at two community colleges in New Mexico before I retired in 2019. My students tended to be motivated;…
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by Naomi S. Baron During the pandemic, many college professors abandoned assignments from printed textbooks and turned instead to digital texts or multimedia coursework. As a professor of linguistics, I…
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by James V. Schall, S.J. A friend of mine recently asked me how he should go about reading Samuel Johnson, the great 18th century English lexicographer, a…
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Most of us spend much more time with digital media than we did a decade ago. But today’s teens have come of age with smartphones in their…
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. …
By Kat Kiefer-Newman We talk about breaking news. We talk about local events and history. We talk about politics, cultural issues, and contemporary problems. We talk about…