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Bruce W. Robbins changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months ago
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Bruce W. Robbins posted an update on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months ago
Please forgive this graceless appeal. The Israel resolution (Right to Enter) that I co-sponsored with Dick Ohmann is now being voted on. I think it’s a moderate and necessary gesture of support for our Palestinian and Arab colleagues who, though US citizens, have been denied entry to the West Bank to teach, do research, lecture, or attend…[Read more]
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Paula M. Krebs replied to the topic Petition in the forum
Prospective Forum: HEP Program Administration on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoI support this forum.
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Paula M. Krebs replied to the topic Petition in the forum
Prospective Forum: HEP Graduate Student Issues on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoI endorse this forum.
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Paula M. Krebs replied to the topic Petition in the forum
Prospective Forum: HEP Activism, Advocacy, Public Humanities on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoI support this forum.
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Paula M. Krebs replied to the topic Petition in the forum
Prospective Forum: HEP The Humanities Workforce on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoI support this forum, too.
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Margaret W. Ferguson replied to the topic Petition in the forum
Prospective Forum: TM Manuscript Culture and Textual Studies on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoI support this new forum. Margie Ferguson
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David Laurence replied to the topic Projects for the Council's K-16 Education Committee? in the forum
Common Core Standards Initiative Discussion Group on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoClosely associated with the Common Core State Standards are two test-development consortia, the Partnership for Assessment of College and Career Readiness (often referred to as PARCC) and the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC). PARCC and SBAC are in the midst of field testing assessments designed to track and inform students of their…[Read more]
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David Laurence posted an update on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months ago
A 14 May post on The Trend reviews historical trends in time to degree for PhDs in the humanities compared with other disciplines, 1960 to 2012.
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David Laurence replied to the topic Projects for the Council's K-16 Education Committee? in the forum
Common Core Standards Initiative Discussion Group on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoThose following this Commons group may find useful as an introduction to the Common Core Standards the first chapter of Pathways to the Common Core: Accelerating Achievement, by Lucy Calkins and her colleagues Mary Ehrenworth and Christopher Lehman. The chapter is available to download free from the Web site of the Reading and Writing Project that…[Read more]
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Margaret W. Ferguson started the topic Projects for the Council's K-16 Education Committee? in the forum
Common Core Standards Initiative Discussion Group on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoWhat would members of this Discussion Group like the Council’s K-16 Education Committee to do? As Chair of that Committee, I have an idea for a project that would involve establishing partnerships among college and secondary school teachers to discuss implementing the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts; how could college t…[Read more]
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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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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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