Interestingly, when you read the academic reactions they reveal more of what got past reviews by peers and, if you spend any time actually reading real academic articles, what is startling is the uncanny degree to which they do look like the real thing.
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New Common Core Or Common Core Classic?
One of the groups that has doubled down on pushing the Common Core Curriculum Standards (CCCS) in the English Language Arts (ELA) seems to be saying that Common Core hasn’t worked because it hasn’t been tried.
Academics In Hole Keep Digging
Every time veteran college administrators and professors get together to show that they know how to save higher education, they show that they don’t. “Another solution is to sponsor new academic programs,” Brian C. Mitchell…
British Prof Abroad Remembered Marxist Birthday
Two scholars remembered the birthday of Karl Marx: one had the basic facts about Marx, the other the basic facts about Marxism.
Will BDS Reversal Revive MLA?
Could this, to revive a phrase that might be used by the more traditional English professors who populated the MLA in days of old, lead to a a renaissance for the organization?
AAUP Claims CDC Undergoes Thought Control
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is upset at apparent attempts by the Trump Administration to change the vocabulary of federal employees, such as doctors and staff at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
Antisemitism @ VT
Did antisemitism somehow become a job prerequisite in academia?
BDS Proponents: Vindictive Losers
Despite a virtually unbroken series of losses—and in academia, no less—proponents of Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions aimed at Israel continue to dominate academic departments and do their level best to suppress Israeli advocacy.
Students Learn about “B**** Planet”
At what point does a graphic novel become pornographic? The English Departments that assign them don’t seem to care.
Time for “How Now Brown Cow” Studies
Generations of us who learned that rhyme never dreamed that brown bovines had a direct connection to chocolate milk.