By Sherman Dorn on November 15, 2006
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 […]
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By Sherman Dorn on November 15, 2006
Craig Jerald’s comments on test-prep sparked Matt Yglesias’s discussion and a debate about test prep, and then Jerald’s follow-up. I don’t think there’s that much disagreement about the facts: some schools respond to test pressures in inappropriate ways by narrowing the curriculum or engaging in instruction that they’d stop (and often do) right after testing. […]
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You go, profgrrrrl!
By Sherman Dorn on November 15, 2006
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 […]
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