Exams?

Just in time for our conversation about exams--

More Schools Are Ditching Final Exams

After the Test, Reassess

A review of the concept and a questioning of the purpose of AP classes--

Replacing AP: Do Its Ends and Means Still Live Up to the Ideal?

Inspiration Balanced by Perspiration

A look at the numbers around the loss of teachers provides insight and a few surprises:

Why Teachers Quit

Reinventing the Wheel

Because we always want to know what it is like for other people, here's what it's like for a different version of what we do.

The Online Teacher's Life

What is Writing For?

As we wind down, it doesn't hurt to reflect on our purpose--what is it we want them to be able to do with what we teach them? Do we learn as much as we teach?

One teacher's journey: Yeah, but What's Writing For?

To Read or Not To Read

Apparently, it has gone beyond questioning to fact...Colleges are not reading Shakespeare.

A Chicago Sun Times article, To be or not to be? At U.S. colleges, it's increasingly 'not' by Anne D. Neal

or the whole report The Vanishing Shakespeare , a report by American Council of Trustees and Alumni

Something to Talk About

A friend of mine has begun a blog in which she and another friend discuss books they are reading, want to read, or hot topics related to books. While there is nepotism in my referencing her site, I do so because I feel that some of you may find it interesting.

So, as the kids look to selecting their summer reading, maybe you too will find something to put on your list.

The Bibliophilistines