By Kylar Loussikian for The Australian. A squat, anonymous office block on the industrial outskirts of Colchester, north of London, doesn’t appear to be the likeliest place for the headquarters of an international fraud operation. Read more...
By Jacqueline Thomsen. Students expect their teachers to be prepared to lead, but sometimes that simply isn't the case.
With a wide variety of teacher preparation programs and an increasing demand for educators, alternative preparation options are springing up alongside existing traditional programs. Read more...
By Andy Thomason. The journal Science has released a new set of comprehensive guidelines for publishing research studies in an effort to make them more transparent, The New York Times reports. The release comes after the high-profile retraction of a study that purported to measure the ease with which individuals changed their opinions on the issue of gay marriage. More...
By William Germano. The ongoing White House v. Congress struggle has recently involved the charge that one side wants to torpedo the other’s plan. That sounds violent, even metaphorically speaking, but torpedo has a more complicated usage history. More...
By Anne Curzan. A few years ago I stopped referring to my students in my writing. It’s not that I ceased talking about students; I stopped referring to them as mine.
Or at least I try. I am sure I still fall into the phrase my students sometimes in my written work (one of the astute readers of this blog probably will discover that I have done so here on Lingua Franca), and I know that it also happens in my unmonitored speech. More...
By Brian Mathews. I read an article last fall about Scotty Walden – a young and exciting football coach at East Texas Baptist University. More...
By Eric Johnson. In the spring of my senior year, I interviewed for a contract-negotiation job at a law firm.By Trish Oberweis. Recently a food stand on my campus was the topic of online discussions because it was named Grills Gone Wild. 
By Tracy McVeigh and Joanna Mason. Sixth formers can’t relax after exams these days. They have to polish Ucas applications, chase work experience … so where’s the time for fun. More...
By Homa Khaleeli. He beat Peter Mandelson to be elected chancellor of Manchester University, but this doesn’t mean it is ‘time for a party’ – Lemn Sissay is determined to use his new role to help more of his fellow care-leavers into education. More...
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