By John Warner. Dear Education System:
Do you know whose voice I don’t hear very often in the great educational reform debate?
Students.
But why should we listen to students? They don’t know what they need, do they?
Maybe not, but they do know what’s happening to them. They know that school makes them miserable. Read more...

By Erin Bedford and Kelly Hanson. This post began as a glimmer of hope, and perhaps a little delusion. When those of us in the humanities look at the narratives about academia flooding the internet--there are no jobs, adjunctification, offers pulled, funding cut, and so on--we sometimes get thinking that those in the sciences tend to have it better. More consistent funding. Easier publishing opportunities. Jobs at the end of the tunnel. Read more...

By Laura B. McGrath. A few weeks ago, I asked complete strangers to write on me with markers. I had no idea what they would write, or if they would write anything at all. But write on me they did: on my arms, back, and shoulders, they wrote a collective poem, and then I made that poem dance, twirl, and do push-ups. It was a powerful experience, for me and for the poet-strangers. Read more...