You will be doing your students a much greater service by reducing the amount of material that you are covering and actually ensuring that students are learning it, rather than making sure that you are ticking off everyone checkpoint in your ideal sy...
...anyone still attempting to argue that Ebonics is a problem for black students or that it is somehow connected to a lack of intelligence or lack of desire to achieve is about as useful as a Betamax video cassette player, and it's time for those fol...
Argus Filch: Students out of bed! Students out of bed! Students out of bed! Minerva McGonagall: They are supposed to be out of bed you blithering idiot. Argus Filch: ...Right, I'm sorry Ma'am. Minerva McGonagall: Actually, Mr. Filch, your timing is i...
College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.
When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.
It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.
Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.
I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.
I want my kids to graduate from high school. But that's not enough. I also want them to go to college. Why? Because rich people's kids go to college. And if that's good enough for them, it's good enough for my kids. Because you know what? College gra...
[first lines] Student: If, and only if, both sides of the numerator is divisible by the inverse of he square root of the two unassigned variable. School Professor: Good. Except when the value of the "X" coordinate is equal to or less than the value o...
School overpopulates students’ minds with too much of what happened yesterday; seldom with what the students can do today, or, tomorrow.
To visualize that which doesn't exist, yet to believe with confidence that it can be realized, is truly something miraculous.
Good grief," said Merlin. "You look like the bastard child of Dumbledore and David Bowie. No, sorry, Dumbledore and Ziggy Stardust.
The central challenge for educational systems around the world is the substitution of effectiveness for popularity.
Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice.
Universities want to recruit the students that they believe will best represent the university while in school and beyond. Students with a robust social media presence and clearly defined personal brand stand to become only more influential.
One of the most important improvements in the No Child Left Behind Act for migrant students was the requirement for electronic transfer of migrant student records.
I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader.
John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
I used to love being the class clown. I loved to make jokes and make people laugh. There was a set of students who would find it funny. But the cool students were like, 'Eeew!'
The most important loan to pay is your student loan. It's more important than your mortgage, car and credit card payments. You cannot discharge student loan debt in the majority of cases.
