By John Warner. Pioneering "grit" researcher, Professor Angela Duckworth, has had that research turn into a monster and escape from the lab. Read more...

By John Warner. Earlier this week I called Dr. Christopher Emdin’s For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood…and the Rest of Y’all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education, “the most important work of pedagogy I’ve read in the last ten years. I wanted to follow-up with a Q&A with Dr. Emdin, asking him about the roots of his pedagogy and why he thinks it’s a necessary approach for our current times. He answered these questions via email. Read more...

By John Warner. By its title, For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood…and the Rest of Y’all Too by Dr. Christopher Emdin isn’t for me.[1]
I am indeed white folks, but I do not teach in “the hood.” I also teach college, rather than in the K-12 system that Dr. Emdin is addressing with this book, and yet over and over again, I found myself underlining passages and thinking about how they might apply to my college writing classroom and my own teaching practice. Read more...

By John Warner. I have been haunted by a phrase from a recent Inside Higher Ed article: “subordinate learner.”
Tim Cassedy argues that in order to succeed, graduate students must be “subordinate learners,” existing as a kind of “ward” of the mentoring professor. Read more...

By John Warner. This past Friday, under the headline, “The Myth of the Hero Teacher,” the New York Times shared the story of Ed Boland, an executive at Prep for Prep, a nonprofit tasked with putting minority children in elite private schools. Read more...

By Matt Reed. We know that the journalism industry is changing. General-circulation newspapers and local television news programs are struggling, while web-based sites -- often specific to a single industry, such as IHE -- are growing. More...