Category Archives: education

Advanced Composition 8.1: Academically Adrift (2)

Posted on March 1, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s plan: Reading Questions Discussion

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Advanced Composition 7.2: Academically Adrift

Posted on February 25, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s Plan: A Quick Survey of What You Should Learn in School Academically Adrift Homework

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Advanced Comp 7.1: Nathan, Blogs

Posted on February 23, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s Plan: A Quick Quiz Quick Review Blogs Responding to Papers Discuss Nathan Homework

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Advanced Composition: 6.2 Your Freshman Year

Posted on February 18, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s Plan: Discussing Nathan ZeFrank on college Tell me about your Freshman Year

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Advanced Composition 4.2: Dewey

Posted on February 4, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s Plan: Focus Groups Discussion & Reading Notes Homework Focus Groups To get things started today, I am going to ask you to form groups of three. Each group will be assigned a question to research. Here’s the questions: What … Continue reading →

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Advanced Composition 4.1: Petrarch (Where did all the poetry go?)

Posted on February 2, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s plan: Reviewing the last discussion posts Listening to Thomas Frank A poem or two Petrarch Question Homework

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Listening, Passivity, and/as Ethics

Posted on November 22, 2014 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

This morning a tweet caught my attention: Loved hearing Albers and Harste speak about reclaiming writing #ncte14 #reclaimthejoy #literacies pic.twitter.com/ifqU0mEdTY — Jon Wargo (@wargojon) November 22, 2014 I haven’t read Albers and Harste before, so I’ll have to track down … Continue reading →

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Petition Against Tuition Scaling

Posted on November 13, 2012 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

A quick post today; Governor is attempting to scale tuition increases based on major, with non-STEM majors paying more tuition. This proposal is built on faulty grounds. Increasingly, our economy is driven by creativity and innovation. The humanities supply these … Continue reading →

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CUNY and salvaging the “doomed project”

Posted on September 17, 2012 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

And just like that pedagogic expertise is crushed by economic and political efficiency. At CUNY Queensborough the administration has sought to reduce composition to a 3 hour course, instead of its traditional 4. The faculty refused, on the grounds that … Continue reading →

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Response: “Ignorance is Strength”

Posted on March 9, 2012 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Here’s another post coming from a Facebook prompt. QV pointed me towards Krugman’s column “Ignorance is Strength” in today’s NYT. My response: There is so much to say in response here. First: I do think the turn, in the humanities … Continue reading →

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