Category: Education
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What’s all the hoopla about book banning, anyway?
If you have been following any news about education or literature this past year, you have surely come across numerous articles about book banning. Along with a couple of other topics that I will be writing about in the near future, this one has been one of the most compelling and divisive. It isn’t the…
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The Downfall of Today’s Trends in Literature Education: Too Much Too Soon
NOTE: This was originally posted to my old blog, The Nosy Parent Blog, in October 2014. If you have read my book Before Austen Comes Aesop, you will recognize the seed of that book in this essay. If you have had your finger on the pulse of education in America over the past few years,…
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Are today’s teachers against us?
Since this blog is brand-new, I thought I’d start off by revisiting some of my old blogs from my original website of the late ’00s. I wrote the following post in 2010. Since then, I’ve drawn even farther from modern American educational methods, believing them to lean too far to the left; however, this post…
Once Upon a Pen 