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Margaret W. Ferguson replied to the topic Sample Common Core tests in the forum
Common Core Standards Initiative Discussion Group on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoIn response to Rosemary Feal’s post, I’d like to call your attention to Elizabeth Phillips’ op ed. in today’s New York Times, “We Need to Talk About the Test”: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/10/opinion/the-problem-with-the-common-core.html?_r=0
Again, as at previous stages of the CCSSI process, the great potential of the educational reforms is…[Read more]
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Gaurav G. Desai started the topic Katrina (CFP) Repost in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 10 months agoCall for Papers
Special Issue: Katrina – A Decade Afterthe minnesota review, a journal of creative and critical writing, invites submissions for a Special Issue on “Katrina – A Decade After” to be guest edited by Gaurav Desai (English/African and African Diaspora Studies, Tulane University). Our aim is to reflect on the hurricane, the measure…[Read more]
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Gaurav G. Desai started the topic Katrina — A Decade After (CFP) in the forum
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Margaret W. Ferguson replied to the topic narrative complexity in the forum
Common Core Standards Initiative Discussion Group on MLA Commons 11 years, 10 months agoThank you, David, for the link to Elfrieda H. Hiebert’s research report and for the Text Project Web page link too.
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David Laurence replied to the topic narrative complexity in the forum
Common Core Standards Initiative Discussion Group on MLA Commons 11 years, 10 months agoParticipants in this discussion of text complexity may be interested in a research report, Using Multiple Sources of Information in Establishing Text Complexity, by Elfrieda H. Hiebert of TextProject, Inc. University of California, Santa Cruz.
The TextProject also has a Web page devoted to the topic of text complexity in the context of the Common…[Read more]
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Gaurav G. Desai posted an update in the group
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS — MLA 2015, VANCOUVER
Around the World in Eighty Clicks: Travel and New Technologies
Discussion Group: Travel Literature
How have new technologies – the internet, planes, trains and automobiles influenced the experience of travel? 250 word abstract and c.v. by 15 March 2014; Gaurav G. Desai (gaurav@tulane.edu).
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Gaurav G. Desai posted an update on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month ago
Dear Colleagues,
The SSRC has put out a call for applications from graduate students in the pre-dissertation stage to apply for their Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship. They welcome (and encourage) students in the humanities to apply for these fellowships. Further details are available at…[Read more]
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