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Archive for September, 2006

Give me a ‘D’ for Shakespeare: English Department’s Dilemma

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

If you check the prerequisites for the Shakespeare Course at a major university where I once taught, the sole criterion for admission to the class is to have received at least a ‘D’ in freshman English. Since most students take freshman English when they are…ummm…FRESHMAN–and since that is the final required English course, it […]

Confessions of a textbook editor

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

In case you were wondering how your textbook got to be the way it is, here is an article straight from the horse’s [?] mouth, originally published in Edutopia, the magazine of the George Lucas Foundation. It also includes a clever cartoon showing the process of textbook development, which reminds me of the statement purportedly […]

George Lucas Foundation provides ideas for teachers for classrooms without textbooks

Friday, September 22nd, 2006

Publishing an education magazine might not seem the most exciting thing for a highly regarded Hollywood director but that is just what George Lucas does over at his foundation. The magazine is called Edutopia and you can take a peek or subscribe right here.

500 English literature college or high school textbook titles $1 to $5 New.

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

In my continuing efforts to alert college English majors, students taking literature courses, teachers teaching literature courses, adult education students, distance learning students and distance learning teachers, and anyone who just wants to read some good books from the canon from Sophocles to Steinbeck, try DOVER BOOKS, with over 700 titles available at Amazon. Just […]