I recently attended the National Council of Teachers of English annual conference.  This year it was in San Antonio, Texas.  The theme for the conference was “Shift Happens,” shift referring to the move from old literacies to new ones, from print media to digital.  Over the period of a few days, it became clearer to [...]

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The end of English teachers is near, I’m afraid.  While it has been a couple centuries, the time has come to acknowledge the need to move on.  English teachers haven’t been defeated, perse .  They have been subsumed by media well beyond the purview of the English language, literature, reading, and writing.  Our task now [...]

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The new season of Top Chef starts in one week. By that time the world will know who our new president is, and I’ll be quite glad to be back to serious television.
In short, Top Chef strikes me as the more legitimate competition. In both television series, competitors wrest for a prize–culinary repute on [...]

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