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… and some days the bear gets you
Anatomy of a latté fix: An AERA symposium proposal on the grad-rate debate was rejected, a session which would have been a discussion with Larry Mishel, Chris Swanson, Rob Warren, and Nikolas Pharris-Ciurej. (I will not identify the division to protect the guilty.) Two local campus-political things are going mildly wonky, but wonky nonetheless. Various […]
You go, profgrrrrl!
Just after I read Michael Bérubé’s discursion on blogs as a professorial discourse came profgrrrrl’s on being a grrrrl — blog identity issues, which is as pointed an example of Bérubé’s argument as anything else you’ll find this month on the ‘net. Incidentally, as a vegetarian I avoid the meaty metaphors used in the Bérubéan analysis […]
English professors and the biological trope
Is there something in the air this month that compels English professors to seek metaphors in the natural world when describing their discipline? Miriam Burstein calls the squinting modifier a rara avis, and Margaret Soltan says she is looking forward to seeing a movie with an English-professor main character to examine the latest representative of […]
Errata week: mundane typo
I’ll end Errata Week here on the blog by noting one embarrassing typo in Creating the Dropout (Praeger, 1996): Changes in the proportion of nineteen-year-olds dependent on relatives cannot account for the drop; a higher proportion was dependent in 1980 (86 percent) than in 1970 or 1980 (80 and 81 percent, respectively). (p. 20) This is […]
Happy Thanksgiving
By Sherman Dorn on November 23, 2006
This holiday, like so many, is proof that we make our own traditions, even when the historical genealogy isn’t as clear as young children are told. In my household, the pumpkin pie is in the oven, the (homemade) cranberry sauce is in the fridge, the (homegrown) sweetpotatoes are cut up, ready for cooking, and the […]
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