Some Students

I What I am about to propose is considered incomprehensibly unfeminine. If I implement it I may see my enrollments decline and the quality of my student evaluations sink. But what I would like to do in all my classes is get up and lecture, assign a midterm, a paper, and a final, and leave … More Some Students

The Best Post Ever

Now it is time to link to On Shame, the best post ever of all those I have read. Read it at its home, because I am only reproducing the opening riff. After this it gets truly deep. After unabashedly complaining about having an single income family, of which she is not the earner, that … More The Best Post Ever

Louisiana News Tonight

Some important items to consider this evening are: 1. My feelings of frustrated desperation. I have taught this novel three times with increasingly brilliant handouts. The last time I taught it the handouts were truly stellar, and a great deal of scholarly reading went into creating them. I start teaching the novel again tomorrow and … More Louisiana News Tonight