A “The Best…” list about New Orleans is timely for two reasons. One, obviously, is because of Hurricane Gustav. The other is because the first unit we teach in our ninth-grade mainstream English classes is on...
Read MoreTim Lauer pointed me in the direction of this column by one of my favorite writers, Paul Krugman, called Poverty Is Poison. In it he highlights, among many things, a new study that shows poverty’s negative effect on the...
Read MoreI was asked by Kevin Hodgson at Kevin’s Meandering Mind to host today’s Day/Week In A Sentence feature. It has a bit of an international and ESL/EFL “feel” to it this week — surprise, surprise. I...
Read MoreIf I get behind updating this page, you can always see the months that are missing by going to the category “Best Posts Of The Month” I regularly highlight my picks for the ten or twelve best posts for each month....
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