The Chronicle of Higher Education on why PowerPoint is a debilitating crutch for both teachers and students. The argument's not just limited to PowerPoint, either -- they make the presumably-obvious-but-apparently-not point that sitting your students in front of computers without a pretty dynamic plan of action is a recipe for pedagogical disaster ( Read more... )

Geoffrey Pullum delivers an overdue smackdown to Strunk & White (and many senseless grammatical maxims) in the Chronicle of Higher Education.


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This drives me to flailing rage, both as a human being and an alum of Virginia public ed.

Birth Control Pill Lands Fairfax Student Two-Week Suspension, Possible Expulsion

The entire article is a mandatory read, and each sentence makes me want to personally overhaul, via bulldozer, our current school and drug policy, but this bit is particularly ( Read more... )