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Actors Fail to Distract Audience from Prop Newspaper Headlines

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My daughter and I were talking about prop newspapers, and she suggested making a newspaper prop with headlines such as "Actors…

Schiller schools internet on correct Apple device plurals, but Cook says “iPad Pros”

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"Siri, is the world ready for Apple pod people who are also grammarians?" According to Schiller, multiple Apple products should…

The dangers of ‘character education’ in universities

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As the authors depressingly note, “the UK is one of the most economically unequal of the rich countries, and closing…

Education: Teaching teachers how to teach reading

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I'm definitely seeing students in my freshman writing class and intro lit classes struggling with complex texts. I have more…

Brilliant, Troubled Dorothy Parker by Robert Gottlieb

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In 1915, Parker, aged twenty-two, went to work at Vogue (for ten dollars a week), writing captions, proofreading, fact-checking, etc.,…

Why are we so bored?

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On average we spend six to seven hours in front of our phone, tablet, computer and TV screens every day.…

William Shakespeare, Playwright and Poet, Is Dead at 52

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On this date — April 23, 1616 — the creator of “Hamlet,” “Macbeth” and “Romeo and Juliet” left the beauty…

What Borges Learned from Cervantes

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Borges reinvented Don Quixote as a playful novel, full of surprises and unexpected anticipations of the way we read today.…

Celebration of Writing

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  My freshman writing students are among the scores presenting their research in preparation for drafting their big term paper.

Out of the Zuckersphere, (back) into the Blogosphere

10 years ago

This is why I still blog. While commercial platforms like Facebook and Twitter are designed to keep you churning out…