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Margaret W. Ferguson posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months ago
A wonderful column, very informative and engaging! And on a critical topic for humanities educators: building alliances across kinds of institutions in order to increase the volume, and potential effectiveness, of our collective public voice. Thank you!
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Margaret W. Ferguson started the topic MLA Session with Presidents of Sister Organization on BDS in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 9 years ago<p>MLA Sessions in 2017 Related to BDS–please add to this list and check the first entry out out if you are coming to the Philadelphia MLA Convention! Early and important is Session 53, “Association Presidents’ Perspectives on Boycott,” with speakers from our sister organizations that have strenuously debated and voted in favor of supporting the…[Read more]
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Margaret W. Ferguson posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago
Thank you so much for your message, Michelle (if I may!). We would love to have you contribute your ideas, and if you want to write a post about your school’s Professional Development activities, please send it directly to me at mwferguson@ucdavis.edu! Several of our Working Group members work directly with secondary school teachers on PD…[Read more]
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Margaret W. Ferguson started the topic Upcoming opportunities to discuss the CCSSI: 2015 Convention, New DA Committee in the forum
Common Core Standards Initiative Discussion Group on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoConvention Sessions and President’s Column
As many of you know, I focused on the Common Core Standards Initiative in my recent column.
Members of this group may also be interested in the following sessions at the 2015 convention in Vancouver:
Session 160: The End of Remediation?
Thursday, 8 January, 7:00–8:15 p.m., 224, VCC West
Program a…[Read more]
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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, 4 months agoProfessor J. Hillis Miller sent me the comment for posting on this thread; it’s a response to the comments by Mike Holquist and me on teaching “complexity” in a work of literature. Since “complexity” is stressed but not very precisely defined in the CCSS English Language Arts document, we are hoping to prepare a statement from the MLA on what…[Read more]
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Common Core Standards Initiative Discussion Group on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoComment from J. Hillis Miller for “Narrative Complexity” thread
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