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When I was a tenth grade student, I had the good fortune to have an English teacher named MS. Comer.
Published: Monday, December 5th, 2022 @ 2:26 pm
By: John W. LaCava
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After extensive research, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the declining math and English scores of American students were being added to its list of COVID-19 symptoms.
Published: Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022 @ 7:40 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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Learning a new language is a difficult task, especially later in life, but this skill can be essential for navigating life and fostering connections.
Published: Tuesday, September 20th, 2022 @ 11:28 am
By: Attila Nemecz
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Now I know how the British felt watching the Spanish Armada sail into English waters in July of 1588. King Philip II commissioned them to invade England with the intent of overthrowing Queen Elizabeth I.
Published: Saturday, July 30th, 2022 @ 2:10 am
By: Lib Campbell
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During the years I taught college English, I had a ringside seat watching a new breed of Jacobins seize control of a university English department, then extend their reach throughout the humanities.
Published: Wednesday, May 11th, 2022 @ 12:07 pm
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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ECU’s English department values inclusivity, diversity
Published: Sunday, February 28th, 2021 @ 8:46 am
By: ECU News Services
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Do people still read books? It depends on whom you ask. A Wall Street Journal Article posed the question differently: "Does the Book Have a Future?"
Published: Saturday, December 21st, 2019 @ 1:56 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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On Friday, the British police arrested Tommy Robinson, founder and former leader of the English Defence League, a far-right anti-Islam group
Published: Sunday, June 3rd, 2018 @ 2:04 pm
By: Daily Wire
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So you think you might like teaching college English. You love the language and its great works
Published: Thursday, August 10th, 2017 @ 8:18 am
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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I attended an estate sale for the first time a couple of weeks ago, and a wave of unreality washed over me
Published: Sunday, July 2nd, 2017 @ 2:48 pm
By: James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
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What gives anybody the right to treat any body like this?
Published: Sunday, May 21st, 2017 @ 12:32 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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That's the title of a Wall Street Journal article by Oliver Kamm. Horrors! For a dyed in the wool grammar geek and word nerd, this article was hard to take.
Published: Saturday, April 22nd, 2017 @ 10:15 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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English professor Liza Wieland had no idea when she opened her email recently that she had been chosen for a major award
Published: Friday, April 14th, 2017 @ 5:04 pm
By: ECU News Services
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The experiment in inclusiveness made for some good music, but not so good in actual practice. The English people have spoken and all the pundits are aghast.
Published: Sunday, June 26th, 2016 @ 1:46 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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North Carolina has a serious problem. Adopting a default mens rea provision would go a long way to solving it.
Published: Friday, May 13th, 2016 @ 7:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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An ECU Honors College student and triple major Daniel Franch has been named a recipient of an English teaching assistant award from the highly-competitive Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
Published: Tuesday, April 19th, 2016 @ 8:21 pm
By: ECU News Services
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That's the title of a Wall Street Journal article by Oliver Kamm. Horrors! For a dyed in the wool grammar geek and word nerd, this article is hard to take.
Published: Tuesday, April 5th, 2016 @ 3:21 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Actually, the question is, "how smart do others think you are?" I found this article in the WSJ fascinating: How to Look Smarter.
Published: Tuesday, March 29th, 2016 @ 4:06 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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I am not advocating beheadings
Published: Friday, February 26th, 2016 @ 7:49 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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Fun with the Thesaurus and other Trivialities
Published: Tuesday, January 26th, 2016 @ 9:51 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Over the last few weeks, the Raleigh News and Observer (along with its sister outlet, the Charlotte Observer) has been waging war on the opponents of Common Core and in particular on the Academic Standards Review Commission, the body tasked with reviewing the math and English standards and...
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 10:51 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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English departments have lost their positions of importance on college campuses in recent years.
Published: Wednesday, October 7th, 2015 @ 5:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Are the humanities in trouble on American campuses? That is certainly the impression one gets from the media today; articles in publications of both left and right describe the increasing flight from the humanities into other disciplines.
Published: Wednesday, September 9th, 2015 @ 9:34 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Writing on subjects you do not know about requires research. After researching subjects for a post or article, I realize that other more qualified people have already done the research and written about it and my two cents would not add to the subject.
Published: Tuesday, June 16th, 2015 @ 3:32 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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In "Maintaining rigor and listening to teachers in the debate over academic standards," Keith Poston of the Public School Forum argues against changing the Common Core math and English standards, since he believes members of the state's Academic Standards Review Commission (ASRC) are working to...
Published: Sunday, March 15th, 2015 @ 2:51 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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If it is really a kind of aggression to correct student grammar, composition teachers are unnecessary.
Published: Sunday, February 9th, 2014 @ 12:31 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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