I was going to write about the after-class sex-toy demonstration at Northwestern University, and mediate upon what is and is not an educational activity and what is and is not appropriate even for an institution of higher learning whose students… Continue Reading
I would not be surprised to learn that Bar Jester Jason Peters is reverse-engineering an actual essay from his freshmen composition class. His note to the female students of his college is well-taken — this isn’t worth suicide for them… Continue Reading
Professor Mondo explains it all. Oh, how I wish I could actually be so honest as he.
This video is making the rounds. The professor is discovering to his chagrin that students can get access to test banks and cheat on the answers. At Outside the Beltway, James Joyner (a former professor himself) takes the professor… Continue Reading
I know very well that if I were willing to, I could totally be this guy. It would involve a short-circuit of my ethics, of course. It wouldn’t be all that different than being a lawyer, really, right on down… Continue Reading
There’s a lot of bullshit involved in teaching. A lot of angst from students who can’t seem to handle that they get questions wrong. A lot of paperwork and bureaucracy from the administration. A lot of claims of being liked… Continue Reading
While reading a deeply interesting post on education reform, I came across this video, which was the third or fourth link to it I had seen in a day: A lot of things really stand out in the video for… Continue Reading
From a room full of adjunct teachers, in a two-and-a-half-hour-long meeting to brief them on how to fill out a five-column form now required by the school, my intelligible notes read as follows: University identifies list of 8-12 “learning objectives”… Continue Reading
If you were to watch this video without a critical mind, you’d probably wind up feeling outraged. But as someone who has had his own thoughts and beliefs tested by countless documentaries and other media productions, and who later in… Continue Reading
Ah, the missed opportunities felt by students with “B” but not “B+” grades! Well, this never happened when I went to Loyola Law School. I, like so many other people with good-but-not-great grades, was stuck living with the consequences of… Continue Reading