kitchen table math, the sequel

I was talking to Katharine today about teaching writing. I've been focusing on sentence combining, specifically on teaching students to...

Finally emerging from Hurricane Sandy discombobulation to discover that Poof : the semester is gone. I have just four classes left to teach ...

Since our power came back on (8 days without), Ed and I are both loving our light switches! I've been walking around the house turning...

from Mom of 4 : A recent post on another website made a good point about the current edworld fad that grammar should be "caught, not ...

electricty

Apart from the standard difficulties my students exhibit when I'm working with them on relative clauses in Latin (such as the idea that...

Con Ed restored power to everyone in town but 41 houses (plus another set downtown on one street), and left . No word from the mayor . I...

from Katharine's post on " The Writing Revolution ": - Many under-privileged children, even in high school, don’t know how ...

Camped out in the faculty lounge post-Sandy, reading articles on "basic writing": At a recent workshop for high school and commu...

Still no power; house is down to 51 degrees. We were set to move to a studio apartment at NYU tomorrow but have just learned that 90% of the...

Peg Tyre’s recent article in the Atlantic, " The Writing Revolution ,” provoked controversy among educators, many of whom find direct ...

We have power. We also have trees. This morning I've relearned the lesson of Darwin: we've been through three ' Treemageddons...

re: the number of "function words" English has Lights flickering here , so I'm getting this up. HBR : Why are function words...

Treemageddon through the years OK, message received. As soon as this one's over, we're buying a generator. Also a week's sta...

Huddleston and Pullum (scroll down) When I say " no accountability ," this is one of the things I'm talking about: a teachi...

Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey Pullum on the passive voice : In truth, the passive is very often exactly the right way to frame a clause in ...

We've been talking, off and on, about students having trouble understanding  anaphora . Come to find out, pronouns, along with conjunc...

sigh Colleges are even less accountable than K-12. If that's possible.

Barry's in the Atlantic !

I'm watching the Jo Boaler video , which I see was funded by the Educational Advancement Foundation , a nonprofit dedicated to imposing ...