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...Sean Ross Meehan Emerson's neglected engagement with education, in particular in evidence in an address he gave at a secondary school in June 1837 amidst an economic panic and two months before his more famous “American Scholar” address. His analysis offers insight into our current educational...

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...Samantha Sabalis This article explores the benefits of bringing museum education into the composition classroom to help students develop confidence and skill in oral presentation. Drawing on current scholarship in object-based learning and engaging museum audiences, it outlines a project in which...

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...John Marsh This article discusses the origins and political effects of university-affiliated, college-accredited community education programs for low-income adults. While useful in their efforts to share the academic resources of the humanities with those otherwise deprived, such programs thrive on...

...Emily Isaacs Fueled by disciplinary disagreements and resource fights, comp/lit conflicts continue. However, productive collaboration is possible and an opportunity remains in developing general education writing courses. A general education course in teaching writing through literature is argued...

...Audrey A. Fisch The New York Times and others regularly implore us to raise the quality of teacher education. This essay explores why it is so difficult to do so, particularly at the urban, public institutions that produce many of our nation's teachers. It describes one such attempt to raise...

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...Adam Ellwanger Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind elicited a storm of critical discourse regarding the condition of higher education in the United States. This essay performs a retrospective evaluation of the rhetorical modes that animated that body of discourse, suggesting that the...

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...Christie Launius Duke University Press 2006 Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, and the Promise of Higher Education in America . Edited by Vivyan C. Adair and Sandra L. Dahlberg. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003. Dews, Carlos L., and Carolyn Leste Law. 1995 . This...