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By: Linda Aragoni | March 23, 2018
In my last blog post, I said talked about the need to believe that every one of your students, whether teens or adults, can and will learn to write competently in your class.
One of the ways you can make it easier to get all your students writing competently before your course is over is to help them set realistic expectations at the very beginning of the course.
By: Linda Aragoni | January 27, 2017
In November, 2015 I began posting a list of resources for folks who want to improve the relationship between rural schools and their communities for their mutual benefit. It's time to revisit the topic. It's still true that, as I wrote in 2015: In rural communities, schools cannot be considered separate from economic development and community development. The vitality and policies of any one of the three impacts the other two.And the 2015 description of rural brain drain still is largely accurate. But rural America's problems are getting more attention these days, most notably from rural Americans themselves who are stepping up try to reverse the decline of the rural American economy and prevent the loss of their communities and communi...
Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Rural schools, college, rural America, brain drain, CTE, rural jobs
By: Linda Aragoni | October 15, 2015
We've all heard gripes about grade inflation. We've all heard gripes about college students' lack of basic skills and study habits. How is it that those two conditions co-exist? 
That's the question Donald Hurwitz, senior executive in residence at Emerson College, explores in an opinion piece in The Boston Globe this week. I don't think many people in education have stopped to ask that question. If you read Mary Alice McCarthy's recent influential piece in The Atlantic about America's love affair with the bachelor's degree, you might have noted the anecdote about her nephew who couldn't march with his college class because he was three credits short.
That's the question Donald Hurwitz, senior executive in residence at Emerson College, explores in an opinion piece in The Boston Globe this week. I don't think many people in education have stopped to ask that question. If you read Mary Alice McCarthy's recent influential piece in The Atlantic about America's love affair with the bachelor's degree, you might have noted the anecdote about her nephew who couldn't march with his college class because he was three credits short. His adviser pointed out that he had taken the same economics course twice...
Category: Uncategorized
Tags: college, grades, Donald Hurwitz, grade inflation, skills gap
By: Linda Aragoni | October 08, 2015
A piece by Mary Alice McCarthy in The Atlantic last week has gotten a lot of well-deserved attention. McCarthy's thesis is in her title: "America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree." She uses the experiences of her two nephews to show two equally unacceptable options for students who don't want to move from the high school classroom to the college classroom. One of her nephews went into a culinary arts training program at at technical college. Then he went to New York City restaurants where he did well and got great experience. All his training and experience afforded him no credit toward the college degree he'd need to work in management, where he'd earn more and which could lead to operating his own r...By: Linda Aragoni | April 16, 2015
A useful literature resource is Guidelines for Reading and Analyzing Literature compiled by Dr. Tina L. Hanlon, associate professor of English at Ferrum College in Virginia. Hanlon breaks the process down into five steps, which she presents on a single web page: - First Impression
- Types of Literature
- Literary Techniques
- Themes
- Evaluation and Review
- AP English Literature and Composition classes
- IB programs
- Concurrent enrollment (high school + college credit) programs
- College students
By: Linda Aragoni | May 05, 2013
The Plastic Age, a 1924 novel by Percy Marks which became a bestseller, takes a close-up look inside a men's college in the days of prohibition, jazz, and bootleg whiskey. it finds "The college is made up of men who worship mediocrity; that is their ideal except in athletics." As they near the end of their college careers, the men reflect on what they've learned and find themselves wanting. One says, “Here I am sporting a Phi Bete key, an honor student if you please, and all that I really know as a result of my college 'education' is the fine points of football and how to play poker. I don't really know one damn thing about anything." The men take their questions about the value of college to one of the college's few ...
Category: Lifelong learning
By: Linda Aragoni | April 10, 2012
David Brooks writes in today's New York Times about the two different economies in the United States. The manufacturing economy is prospering because it has learned to use technology to reduce people costs, boost productivity, and increase profits in the face of global competition. By contrast the economic sectors that don't face global competition—notably government, healthcare, and education—are not prospering. 
One of the down-stream effects of this economic rift is the rise of the entrepreneurial information worker who sells his/her skills on a job-by-job basis. The education community at large has not come to grips with the significance of this economic trend.When educators talk about entrepreneurs, most of the time what they hav...
One of the down-stream effects of this economic rift is the rise of the entrepreneurial information worker who sells his/her skills on a job-by-job basis. The education community at large has not come to grips with the significance of this economic trend.When educators talk about entrepreneurs, most of the time what they hav...Category: Teachers
Tags: high school, career-ready, college
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