Less Than Words Can Say
If you saw the 2004 Pixar hit The Incredibles, you might remember that Mr. Incredible, a.k.a. Bob, captures in one line the reason our schools are failing. Resisting his wife’s…
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The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Movement: Tyranny Through Subverting Language
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of articles. Part II is here. The political left has proven itself to be amazingly incompetent when it comes to governing. Examples…
Did You Know? Disrupt Texts Is the Latest Attack on the Western Canon
Penguin Classics is partnering with Disrupt Texts to replace Shakespeare and Homer with Ibram X. Kendi. What is Disrupt Texts? For the uninitiated, it is a new radical movement in classrooms which seeks…
Disadvantaging Black Students with a Demand for ‘Linguistic Justice’
On August 3, the Executive Committee of the Conference on College Composition and Communication approved a position statement on “Black Linguistic Justice.” The statement was crafted as a set of…
Microaggression or Neglect?
If it is really a kind of aggression to correct student grammar, composition teachers are unnecessary.