Chronicles Magazine September 2011

U No What I Meen: Technology and Illiteracy

R. Clay Reynolds - AUGUST 01, 2011

Most college and university professors know that even though students may successfully complete remedial courses and even a full slate of freshman and sophomore classes, many will still be unable to use proper language mechanics or to work with...

VIEWS

Tarzan's Way
Andrei Navrozov - AUGUST 01, 2011
Last night we watched from the hotel terrace as a giant cargo ship cast anchor in the Tyrrhenian indigo and proceeded to unload fresh water for the whole of our sunburnt island, an enterprise which from that vantage point seemed a triumph of...
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Correspondence

Remember the (Unrevised) Alamo!
Egon Richard Tausch - AUGUST 01, 2011
The heart of the attack on the Alamo is the allegation that Davy Crockett and several other defenders surrendered and were executed, rather than fight to the death.
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Correspondence

A Gentleman and a Scholar
Wayne Allensworth - AUGUST 01, 2011
The call came just before dinner on a Wednesday in April—a bright, windy day when spring was just taking hold and seemed so full of possibilities. Coach had died the previous Friday in his hometown of Youngstown, Ohio. I hoped that he had not...
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Beyond the Revolution

Deforming Education
Thomas Fleming - AUGUST 01, 2011
Inspired by a PBS special, Miss Rhee enlisted in Teach for America, a tax-consuming conspiracy of do-gooders that sends graduates of elite colleges out to enlighten the squalid masses of the ghetto.
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NEWS

September 11: Ten Years After
John Seiler, Jr. - AUGUST 01, 2011
I turned on the tube in time to see the second airliner crash into the south tower of the World Trade Center. My first thought: How horrible—thousands of people are dying. A few seconds later, my second thought: The government is going to use...
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BETWEEN THE LINES

Bohemians in the Redwoods
Justin Raimondo - AUGUST 01, 2011
The mythic lore surrounding the Bohemian conclaves is in large part a self-created mystique, provoked—perhaps deliberately—by the extreme secrecy that shrouds these gatherings in mystery.
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Chronicles Magazine September 2011

U No What I Meen: Technology and Illiteracy

Tarzan's Way

Remember the (Unrevised) Alamo!

A Gentleman and a Scholar

Deforming Education

September 11: Ten Years After

Bohemians in the Redwoods

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