An interesting article in today’s NY Times: Poor Students Struggle as Class Plays a Greater Role in Success (alternatively titled as “For Poor, Leap to College Often Ends in Hard Fall”) I write about class a lot because it’s one of the few things I feel secure in my knowledge. When we think about classContinue reading “Supporting students from a class perspective”
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AcWriMo
I’m taking part in the Academic Writing Month challenge. My goal for the month: Two full article drafts from my dissertation and a complete literature review for the new research project I’m working on. Strategy: Write Mondays and Fridays. 1st article draft done by 11/10, literature review done by 11/20, and 2nd article done byContinue reading “AcWriMo”
NPR Story
As I was driving through Itasca State Park on Friday, I heard a disturbing story on The World for NPR about the Marines in Afghanistan training Afghan soldiers. The Marines were joking about how they were unable to pronounce the names of their Afghan colleagues, so rather than trying to learn to pronounce the namesContinue reading “NPR Story”
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