By John Warner. School sometimes feels adversarial. Some working through those feelings. More...
13 avril 2017
13 avril 2017
The Airing of the Grievances
By John Warner. Last week, in writing about a strategy for arranging groups for group projects, in passing, I mentioned another strategy I stumbled onto years ago that has applications well beyond group projects. More...
13 avril 2017
Arranging Groups for Group Projects
By John Warner. "Group project" are the words students dread most. Here's a technique to make them work better. More...
13 avril 2017
Elite Higher Ed: A Bad Example for Good Leaders
By John Warner. Writing in the New York Times, Susan Cain takes the class of elite higher education institutions to task for their “leadership” fetish when it comes to admissions. Read more...
13 avril 2017
The Predatory Men of Academic Creative Writing
By John Warner. I am only tangential to the circle of academic creative writing, but I’ve heard the stories. Read more...
13 avril 2017
A Major Threat to Campus Speech
By John Warner. Depending on your point of view, the hullaballoo over Charles Murray’s appearance at Middlebury is either a sign of the impending collapse of free thought and inquiry on college campuses or an inevitable spasm of disturbance when groups previously excluded from the conversation insist on being heard. Read more...
13 avril 2017
The Year of the Leggings
By Laura Tropp. This might be called the year of the leggings. It wouldn’t be the first time, of course. Created in the 1960s, it was a popular fashion trend in the 1980s, and reached a second wave of fame in the last decade, as this article illustrates. Leggings have also always had its critics. Some decry them as deplorable fashion. Others see them as the cause of health problems. More...
13 avril 2017
Children as Mini-Adults
By Laura Tropp. While much of my household succumbed to a variety of viruses this month, I ended up spending much time watching children’s television with my kids. Something that struck me was the amount of shows where the children are left to fend for themselves while their parents are lost, missing, or just preoccupied. More...
13 avril 2017
What Are We Fighting For?
By Elizabeth Coffman. “Yep!” I thought, and reposted on my site. My social media protest went out immediately after Trump announced his proposed military budget increase of $54 billion, to be paid for by defunding or eliminating domestic programs such as the NEH, NEA, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as well as the EPA, Department of Education, 40% of the State Department, etc. More...
13 avril 2017
Math Geek Mom: Equal Pay Day
By Rosemarie Emanuele. When I recently taught hypothesis testing in my Statistics class, I pointed out to the students that, while in some situations, we may want to be able to reject a hypothesis by finding evidence that a mean is either higher or lower than a hypothesized value, it is often the case that we approach our test with an idea of which direction in which we expect to see deviation. More...
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