It appears that only I think everyone should be on a tenure line. I understand the need for “flexible” faculty given shifting enrollments but I say that if you need someone clearly enough that you rehire them for longer than three years, you need them and should offer them a tenure track position. Pieces and … More I appear to stand alone
This is important for my languishing article. It is hard to manage because it is about language, but wants to be about neoliberalism and educational policy. If I keep remembering it is about language, I may be able to finish it. Axé.
“The common use of the argumentative essay in US schooling dates back to unprecedented growth in higher education and a literate middle class in the early 20th Century. College was no longer the purview of an elite group from similar backgrounds, and more students meant two things: an insufficient number of teachers trained in writing … More On teaching college composition
I hope people actually respond to this. I had a huge argument today with some people in the adjunct movement, about this. They are convinced I do not understand that they are in poverty and I do not think their position is actually very well thought out. They have massive amounts of documentation of poor … More On academic freedom, again
We had been moving toward decarceration and the limiting or elimination of the death penalty but with the Trump victory the panorama has changed very greatly. I have long sustained that the prison industrial complex was the key to many mysteries and I declare that it must be watched closely now. This article talks about … More Back to the prison industrial complex, and back to the border
So, last week was statement signing. If you have not done this yet, now is the time. DONE. This week: Paul Ryan re: ACA. DONE. Making a list of local groups that have organizing resources and workshops. Getting on their mailing lists. Taking a workshop or two. Best if in-person, but online is better than … More An activist agenda
A serious approach to resisting the Muslim registry, by our colleague Samir Chopra of Brooklyn College. Also, allegedly by Yale historian and Holocaust expert Timothy Snyder, twenty lessons from the twentieth century. 1. Do not obey in advance. Much of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what … More Samir Chopra, Timothy Snyder
There is much anti-Trump activity, like this. Below is a statement from the Democratic Socialists of America that I got by e-mail. Statement from DSA’s National Political Committee November 13, 2016 How Trump Won: Seizing the Anti-Establishment Ground through Racial and Economic Nationalism On November 8, voters in the United States narrowly elected an openly … More “We Fight for Socialism Over Barbarism”
Something is dying. What is getting born? Did something die long ago, and did I simply not recognize it? Was the thing that died real? I think it was the realest thing that ever happened to me, but was it real? Some say not. There is something I don’t want to die and don’t want … More Algo está muriendo
The “school problem” has two dimensions, as he sees it. One is the engineering aspect: the means by which young people acquire an education. The other is the metaphysical aspect: the underlying purpose or mission — the “end” — of education. Postman believes that the debate over the future of America’s schools focuses too much … More Synopsis of Postman, “The end of education”
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