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Attack of the Grinch
A new correspondent writes: I am a new department chair. The staff love to decorate for any and all holidays...
Blind, Deaf and Dumb
Teaching students to read literature is about taking your time and encouraging them to do likewise, writes Laurence Musgrove. It's not about speed and the latest gadget.
The Limits of Transparency
Search Committee Chair: The job starts next semester. Can you do that? Candidate: No problem! Rarin' to go! Woo-hoo! (skip...
Guest Post: On Seeing Clearly
[ Recently I asked writer, editor and teacher Dinty W. Moore to join the conversation on teaching creative writing, and...
A Guide for Consumers of Theology
Charlie Clark on what it might look like if U.S. News ranked churches.
Just a Job
Picking up on the premodern vs. modern theme of yesterday's post, Grad School Friend (who is on the tenure track...
Scathing Online Schoolmarm
Norman Mailer has won England's annual Bad Sex Award, posthumously, for a passage in one of his last novels. Here's...
Plate of Shrimp
"It's like when someone says plate. And then someone says shrimp. And then someone says plate of shrimp .... It's...