A person close to me recently used the phrase “people of color” at a work meeting. “Are we supposed to say that?” asked a gentleman in his 50s. A conversation ensued. After several minutes of discussion, the person who originally used the phrase said the group had gone off topic, but she insisted her choice
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Know thou this: that men Are as the time is. -Edmund (King Lear, Act V, Scene 3) One of the most rudimentary errors that one can make in reading a literary text is to see the words of a character as being synonymous with those of the author. Take, for example, these lines from
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For a number of years, it was assumed that public education was swimming along, efficiently educating children of all ages. More recently, the products coming out of public schools have caused a troubling concern to leap into the minds of adults: are schools dumbing down the content they teach to students? That concern seems to
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Unless I miss my guess, almost every one of us have taken a quiz to see how many titles we’ve read from a list of 100 classic books. If you’re like me, you’ve probably read more than the average test taker, but your score still causes you to wince a bit and resolve to read
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Via the Chicago Tribune: Before a book is published and released to the public, it’s passed through the hands (and eyes) of many people: an author’s friends and family, an agent and, of course, an editor. These days, though, a book may get an additional check from an unusual source: a sensitivity reader, a person
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Via the Associated Press: “Black students should be offered free tuition and housing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison because blacks were legally barred from education during slavery and UW-Madison remains out of reach for black students today, the student government said Wednesday. The Associated Students of Madison [ASM] said in a resolution that students from
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