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,…
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;…
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…
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…
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…
