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Meet the new standard, same as the old standard

We're studying the 1996-97 Ebonics controversy in RHE 310 right now. I asked students to read, initially, articles from the Washington Times and New York Times reporting the Oakland School Board's...

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Acceptance: RSA 2008

Now I know which dissertation chapter to write next. (Perhaps too ambitious) abstract follows:Toward a Responsible Pedagogy: Linguistic Standardization and the Erasure of Language, 1878-2007When it...

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30 an hour on a six-point scale

More evidence that standardized testing/grading is fucked up: Retired high-school English teacher Dan Verner grades SAT essays. For up to 10 hours per day, Verner grades 30 essays each hour--essays...

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"When I grow up, I’m gonna do vending machine maintenance"; or, comedy as...

Great conversation today with Eric and Doug about the recent Times article Pushing Their Luck, Sitcoms Are Playing With Race Cards, which seems to be a disturbingly uncomplicated reading of comedy....

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The Mist and leftist anti-rhetorical paranoia

I saw The Mist this weekend, and I've already had one conversation with a co-worker defending my dislike of the film. Within the first five minutes, the dialogue--and its delivery--reveals a lot of the...

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Best albums of 2007 - an incomplete "best of"

So it's the time of year for "best of..." lists, and manysites have already posted "best albums" lists. I'm partly inspired by Eric, but this post will be nowhere near as elaborate as Eric's exhaustive...

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Slave trade abolished...

officially, 200 years ago today. In the British Empire, of course. The Slave Trade Act of 1807 went into effect on the first day of the new year. Slavery, of course, wasn't abolished until 1833. Again...

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"There's never been a paper bag for drugs. Until now." Or, What Is "Real...

[Cross-posted at Long Sunday]What's up with the title The Wire? I mean, having a wire up provides the detectives with a kind of talismanic assurance, and the capacity to surveil their "targets" is...

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"when the Modern Language Asses meet..."

In an article I read today (Donald C. Stewart. “Harvard’s Influence on English Studies: Perceptions from Three Universities in the Early Twentieth Century.” College Composition and Communication. 43...

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4Cs paper: Questioning the Histories of Katrina: Narrative Analysis in the...

[My paper from the Conference on College Composition and Communication panel I put together, Composed in the Wake of Disaster: (Re)Writing the Realities of New Orleans]Questioning the Histories of...

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