November 2005
Monday 28 November 2005
- On Updating Handouts - Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I made a small series of new handouts on the topic of source citation for my Composition class and, among them, attached a page of a sampling of cited sources from an older handout to the batch. As I looked over the sources, I realized that... (11:05 | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments)
Wednesday 16 November 2005
- Getting Off the Burnout Track - I was interviewed by Kendra Hamilton for the just-published article, "Getting Off the Burn-Out Track" -- part of a series about important faculty career trends in the latest issue of Diverse magazine. In the article, Hamilton sheds light on the ramifications of the waning of the tenure-track for academics seeking... (15:34 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Sunday 13 November 2005
- "Highly Qualified" Teachers - Edutopia this month published "NCLB Confidential" -- an interesting article by Roberta Furger that explores a few elements of the No Child Left Behind Act that are often ignored because so much of the debates surrounding this act focus solely on the issue of testing and student accountability. I've written... (10:26 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)