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corinne-heather-copnick's picture
Jul.08.2008
Airfares may increase, gas prices may go through the roof, but we're going global right at home! Yes, we've become an international family at home because a funny thing has been happening as people read my book. One of the chapters in Cryo Kid -- Drawing a New Map (www.cryokid.com) is titled "...
jeff-biggers's picture
May.21.2008
They Came Down From These Hills and Made HistoryBy JEFF BIGGERSChronicle of Higher Education, May 23, 2008After speaking at 30 universities in Appalachia and across the countryover the last couple of years, I have learned two things for sure.First, while some of the icons and milestones of the...
jessica-barksdale-inclan's picture
May.21.2008
Every year, teachers, instructors, professors, meet, greet, befriend, be-enemy a number of human beings, and then all of them say goodbye to all those human beings.  Hello, how are you, let me learn a lot about you, and then, ciao. As a novelist, I've always found this distressing.  I never get the...
jessica-barksdale-inclan's picture
May.20.2008
I often teach a class online at Diablo Valley College that is required not only for GE requirements, graduation, and transfer, but needed at every single college and university on the planet, and maybe even at extra-terrestrial universities and institutions of higher learning that I'm not aware of...
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Jan.16.2008
Many years ago, when I first began teaching as a part-time instructor, I taught an English class devoted to spelling.  Now, I am not a natural speller, having learned many of the rules out of necessity for myself, so I took to teaching this short class well, knowing how useful spelling rules are.(...