So the Atlantic article cherry-picked evidence at best, and sold at least some students short. This is interesting reading. I love what she has to say about making texts approachable and exciting for students.
If you were horrified or outraged by that Atlantic article last week saying college kids can't read whole books anymore, this new piece by one of the teachers who was profiled is a must-read.
Early this summer I was interviewed by Rose Horowitch, an editor for The Atlantic. She told me that she had heard from a university professor that incoming students were struggling to keep up with the...
I teach CS Ethics at a small college and a humanities instructor was aghast that I wasn't making young software engineers read Plato as though that was the obvious and only way to teach ethics. I make them read about FB in Myanmar. This blog post resonated with me a lot!