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Can we get a version 1.0?
Duke and University of Michigan's basketball teams played each other a couple weeks ago, and watching it made me feel like I was in high school again. Not because rejuvenated me with youthful vitality,...
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Oh Canada: On the greatness of CBC Radio 2
I was recently introduced to CBC Radio 2, to which I can only say, "Well done, Canada. Well done."Not only do they have adequate nationalized health care (frankly, a no-brainer for any thinking person...
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The Benefits of Writing
This collection of writers on writing from the Washington Post is fascinating.Check out Rita Dove's Sesame Street comment on page 3. Awesome. If that's not fuel to take your writing more seriously, I...
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5-Second Book Review x 3
The Abstinence Teacher by Tom PerrottaAwesome & fun. Perrotta's read on contemporary suburbia and the myriad problems raised in its identity crisis (Progressive? Puritanical? Something in between?)...
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Yes and yes and yes
One of the many great elements of being an English teacher is that on occasion (sadly, such occasions are rare), it is my job to pause for a moment and read. In preparing a lesson for young writers...
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Chronological by subject, eh?
The Family Nobisomania, having just moved again for what is hoped to be the final time, is currently in discussions of how to arrange our books. Imagine my joy when "Shelf-Conscious" by Francesca Mari,...
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Sure, happiness might be a warm puppy, but
it's also having a national pundit say your job is "an impossible task" at a time when most politicians and other pundits want to blame you for all that ails the country. Thanks, Mr. Weissmann, for...
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Every Click Counts
This is my latest must-read article, Clay Johnson's "Feasting on Junk Info," from the Los Angeles Times. He hits on one of my favorite ranting topics: You can't complain about the media if you're...
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Moneymoneymoneymoney & Teachers
Read all of this. Twice. Then re-read #6 another few times. Then share this page with everyone you know who has any form of opinion about education because by my experience, Daniel Pink has nailed the...
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You Gotta Read This, Feb. 17th edition
Here are five articles I read in the past couple of weeks that, for one reason or another, I think everyone should read. So, read 'em.Miscellaneous:1. Hilarious, and really wish it was true: The...
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News or The Onion?
A middle-aged teacher leaving his wife and family for an eighteen-year-old girl sounds completely Oniony. Turns out, it's true. In addition to the obvious creepiness issues, I question the depth of...
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The News or The Onion?
Today's entry in The News or The Onion? looks shockingly realistic but is actually from the Onion. Despite a crippling poverty problem affecting America's public schools, this Onion headline about...
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Let's take it slow
This is perhaps the best encapsulation I've read of recent research on the value of fiction. Three cheers for Maura Kelly for putting it so eloquently. That said, I do need to quibble with her quotable...
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I can read with my ears, right?
Here is a good article by Jenni Laidman on audiobooks. Since I overbook my life on an almost daily basis (it's a disease, I know), I have very little time to read literature. If I've read six books...
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ABABCDCDEFEFUh-Oh
We saw Phillip Levine read last night at the Detroit Institute of Arts. It was lovely, funny, caustic, insightful, you name it. It was everything a good reading with Q & A from a former poet...
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Wait, We're Supposed to Check History Before Forming an Opinion? Sez Who?
Disclaimer: This is not a politics blog. There's enough of that out there, done by folks smarter than I. This blog does occasionally talk about writing, though, and that's why I post the following....
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Strange times
Just an FYI: The singularity may be happening.I invited my students to think of unique events they had witnessed and to write a brief essay about it. We were using Michel de Montaigne's "Of a...
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Article 7
I haven't put up a poem in awhile. [Heck, I haven't been putting much anything on the blog in awhile (a certifiable trend in the post-introduction-of-Twitter world, I presume).] But I heard this poem...
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The News or The Onion?
Why is critical thinking important? Because discerning between the News or the Onion is a real life skill. Here it is at work (or not, really): A satirical military blog post was mistaken for a real...
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Do It For the Children
A rambling, oh-so-rambling initial reflection on NCTE12Something like 300 student papers are chewing at my heels, but before I crack my lion tamer's whip at them, I have to offer one reflection on the...
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