Sunday, June 6, 2010

Gee, What a Suprise.

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This was in today's NY Post: NY Passes Students Who Get Wrong Answers on Tests State education officials had vowed to "strengt...
Saturday, April 3, 2010

Repost: Toxic Truths, Part II (March 28, 2008)

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As a follow-up to a previous post, Toxic Truths (which you might want to read first; this is a very long post), I'd like to examine e...
Saturday, March 13, 2010

Bill Maher's New Rule: Don't Blame the Teachers

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Bill Maher: "New Rule: Let's Not Fire the Teachers When Students Don't Learn, Let's Fire the Parents." I've been...
Sunday, March 7, 2010

Repost: The Great Failure (April 7, 2008)

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"The persistent weakness of American liberalism is its fixation with rights and procedures at any cost to efficiency and common sense....
Friday, February 26, 2010

God Hates Me.

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Between the fall of 1997 and January 8, 2010, I spent the better part of 12 school years as a New York City teacher. In all that time, if me...
Friday, February 5, 2010

Over the Top

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Two articles in the Daily News in the last couple of days caught my attention: Mom Fumes After Son, 9, Is Busted for Bringing 2-Inch Lon...
Thursday, January 28, 2010

J.D. Salinger, 1919-2010

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J.D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye and a main character in the novel Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella, has died at the age of 91 ...
Sunday, January 24, 2010

Jay - Ee - Tee - Ess ...

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No, I'm not going to pontificate here about if/how/why my perennially heartbreaking, soul-crushing New York Jets are going to beat the m...
Sunday, January 3, 2010

The Gathering Storm

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One more week and it will be over. As my last Christmas/holiday break comes to an end, and I prepare to go into my final week of teaching, I...
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Monday, December 21, 2009

A Paragraph About Nothing

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I feel compelled today to cross-post this exercise from my website. The purpose of the exercise is to read the paragraph, a Discussion parag...

Deep, Abiding Frustration

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I'm almost through grading the third of five classes' worth of "critical lens" essays that the students wrote last week af...
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Thursday, December 17, 2009

Single Digits

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I have nine teaching days left. At some point I'm going to take the essays on this blog and attempt to compile them into a book, which I...
Tuesday, December 1, 2009

It's gold, Jerry. Gold.

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Today in class we were discussing the passage in Shoeless Joe when Ray Kinsella and J.D. Salinger arrive at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Coo...