Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s Generous Thinking helps anyone involved in education think about priorities and assumptions, aboutRead More
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Writing for General Audiences as an Academic
I’ve just finished attending the 2019 International Virginia Woolf Conference, a marvelous event focused thisRead More
Lessons for Higher Ed from the Survival of Independent Bookstores
Another day, another report of an independent bookstore … doing pretty well. After some apocalypticRead More
The “Textbooks” Misnomer
The other day I explained to a student that the “cc” field in emails isRead More
Cruelty-Free Syllabi
This Inside Higher Edarticle about a particularly punishing course syllabus is extreme, but many college professors haveRead More
New Educations
1. I survived high school by reading books about education. My mother worked at theRead More