English 102

English 102 Lesson Plan Day 1 Learning Begins with Questions. Three questions--to the left, about the class, about me. Three assumpt...

Basic system for figuring out who's rich and who isn't, according to Monty Python.

Last Day Bonus Points. H/I Cover Letter? H/I "Second Chance" Draft? Due Monday by noon in my office. Essays must include my commen...

First, if you are posting comments on this blog you might want to reconsider your screen name if it might be considered offensive, whether y...

This article is fascinating: A great paradox of our age is that despite the declining cost of connecting across space, more people are clust...

English 102 Winter 2011 Day 46 1. Learn from Leon and Lindsey and the Tour De Dumb and ANOTHER Leon. 2. Bonus points? a. Science Lecture (ma...

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College is looking like the place . Globalization in action.

English 102 Winter 2011 Day 45 1. Colbert. 2. Stewart. 3. Bonus points? a. Science Lecture (march 9th) 4. Tourism from yesterday’s paper. 5....

Today just 400 Americans have more wealth than half of all Americans combined.

Here's One , Two , Three

All over. Some (including Gates) don't see a problem if the teachers are good. I say, 43 students x 5 classes= 215 essays to grade, if ...

Social Capital 1. Parenting 2. End "marriage penalty " 3. Promote marriages in PSA's etc (LDS does this and others) 4. Require...

Here's a flat world approach to parent education. Babycenter.com, too.

Here's the site.

Family Structure (Nobody Gets Married Anymore, Mister) UW has a program started by a former student of mine that fits in this conversation w...

Here's the Daily Show on the very thing we've been talking about.

Immigrant Parents Learn Lessons on Raising Ninos--YHR Prosser, the Catholic Church and Affordable Housing: NIMBY. from previous essays: The ...

UW has a program started by a former student of mine that fits in this conversation well. It's called the "Dream Project "--sh...

Here's an article from today about attempts to deal with the ambition gap. (AND, if you comment on this article, you get a point. Shoul...

If you think Drug and Alcohol education programs are a good solution to obstacles, things just got a bit harder. If you are working on how t...

Here's one place. Here's google results.

Here's some from the Christian tradition. Here's what Bush was doing . Here's what Obama is doing .

English 102 Winter 2011 Day 43 1. Bonus points? a. Science Lecture (march 9th) b. Play tonight and tomorrow. 2. Business essays--que...

Family Values in Sweden. is this a better way than Universal Preschool? or fend for yourself? Here's a handy table to compare.

Work hard. Stay in school.

Hey, Lay off Senator Padme. or, Maybe this is leadership on the issue?

Where to cut the budget , according to David Brooks: A second austerity principle is this: Trim from the old to invest in the young. We shou...