Teaching Obama's Race Speech
I teach college and Obama's speech in Philadelphia came during our spring break. Tuesday was the first day back and we were starting a new unit, a new paper. I was having trouble getting focused, so I...
View ArticleReading Rooms in Jeopardy (UPDATED)
(cross posted at Fernham); UPDATED TO NOTE: first mentioned in Paul Werner's diaryAn old friend who writes in a rather urgent, heated style, emailed me last week with news and a request for action. I...
View ArticleTeaching Obama’s Race Speech, 2
Last week I wrote about teaching Obama’s Philadelphia speech in my college writing class. At the time, I was flush with the possibility that I might really be doing something to contribute to a...
View ArticleThank you, Mr. Murdoch, AKA jab with the left hand, shake with the right
In the past couple days, I’ve noticed several attempts to rethink our political discourse through listening to those we disagree with. First, Nick Kristof at the Times posted an editorial warning of...
View ArticleDonna Brazile at Fordham
My students (in my freshman composition and rhetoric class) turned in their analysis of Obama’s race speech today and, for a treat, instead of class we went to hear Donna Brazile speak. She was the...
View ArticleObama’s Education Plan & Why Americans Should Care
How disheartening to go to the government election 08 website and find this headline: “Education Unlikely to Be Predominant Campaign Issue: Americans not particularly concerned about educational...
View ArticleEducating Young Voters: Resources and a plea for more
I’m about to embark on teaching a pair of papers on the Presidential Election in my freshman writing class. My students, most of whom are eighteen or nineteen and, thus, are first-time voters. My goal...
View ArticleCommunity Organizing and New Technologies
Back in February when I was trying to decide between Clinton and Obama, one thing was clear: both would be better than what we have now, but during a Clinton presidency, I could sit back and return to...
View Article
