Order of Education

This post begins a four part series that explores literature-based writing classes. In this series, we’ll explore the concept of literature-based writing courses and how we, as writing teachers, can use literature in our composition courses to teach writing. In order to gain a full perspective on this discussion, I’m going to break our exploration…

You, too, can own your very own adjunct. All you have to do is move to Ohio and become a university administrator. Yes, folks, that’s all it takes and then you’ll be able to trade people like property. Ohio adjuncts live to serve you. They will do anything you tell them. And they cost next…

Tomorrow, when the monthly unemployment numbers come out, we’ll learn that the underemployment and unemployment rates remain relatively high. Big surprise there. According to the latest Freakonomics podcast on NPR’s Marketplace, there’s a new theory for why the high unemployment rate persists. Apparently, we’re getting hit with the side effects of a trend that began over a…

The problem with creative work is it usually fails. Creatives spend hours and hours on projects that almost always crash and burn. Just about every project started by a creative professional will end in disappointment. It’s demoralizing. It’s depressing. It’s draining. Worse yet, when a creative doesn’t succeed, he doesn’t get paid. All those hours…

As consumers, we’re often willing to pay more for something due to its perceived value than we are for its tangible value. The value this purchase confers upon us as the consumer, in this case, is greater than the value of the currency used to purchase it. In this type of exchange, often referred to…

This idea of the “teacher-run school” has been popping up lately and I’m liking it. In our weekly newsletter, #EdFriday, we featured a Pittsburgh educational cooperative that’s bypassing the high cost of learning by reducing wasteful overhead and expensive administrators. And just this morning I read an article about another potential teacher-run school being considered…