Writer’s Block Demolition Site

Firstly, (or should I say lastly?) I would say that I’ve never written in a genre like this before, which is a bit weird. It sorta brings out a cut-throat side of me, which may or may not be a good thing. I definitely think this genre lends itself to a critical pedagogy, and I […]

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I LOVE giving my posts titles that don’t say anything, don’t you?
Seriously, though, researchers from Britain, the U.S., and Canada performed a study determining that a child’s behavior in Kindergarten is not as reliable a predictor of future schooling success as more academic factors.
The study looked at “three key elements of school readiness–school-entry academic, […]

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On Friday October 5, 2007 the Michigan Council of Teachers of English met in Lansing to give and hear lectures on and discuss different strategies, successes, and failures in English classrooms across the state and nation. Kathleen Blake Yancey kicked off the somewhat early morning with a slideshow keynote address on literacy in the 21st […]

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I would like to draw your attention to the right hand of the page under the word “Links.” Look at that beautiful blogroll! I just finished it, and good riddance, I say! I wouldn’t give the blogroll’s compilation process a 10 on the fun scale (far from it), but I did notice some pretty cool-looking […]

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