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| Blog Name: |
The Write Space |
| Url: |
http://jasoncourtmanche.blogspot.com/ |
| Language: |
English |
| Topics: |
writing, teaching, education |
| Description: |
As the Director of the Connecticut Writing Project-Storrs, Jason Courtmanche will be blogging on issues related to teaching, writing, publication, composition studies, creative writing, American Literature, secondary education, higher education, technology, and any other related issue that might catch his interest. |
| Popularity: |
198 Followers |
Remembering The Catcher in the Rye
| My cell phone rang last Wednesday while I was getting coffee. It was a student who wanted to know if I had heard that J.D. Salinger had died. As the day went on, several more former students cont... |
Dictionaries and Vending Machines
| Down the hall from my office are soda and snack vending machines, and both are notorious for stealing money. The Coke machine sometimes just takes your $1.25 and gives you nothing in return. The ... |
Tracking My Ambivalence
| I’m very ambivalent about the State Department of Education’s proposal to eliminate tracking. I was talking to one secondary colleague from Mansfield and another who teaches elementary school in E... |
Race to the Top. Details to Come.
| I was just reading the latest issue of NEA Today. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has an article in there titled “Elevating the Teaching Profession.” In it there is much discussion of the eval... |
Marley was dead, to begin with . . .
| When I came home from work yesterday my son came up to me and said, “Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that,” and walked away. I asked him where he learned that, an... |
I Was Not That Kid
| I was not the most serious undergraduate student. I was happy as an unfocused English major. I took an eclectic set of courses, wandered into most of my classes late, and never brought a notebook... |
Great Students
| Many people ask me if I love working at UConn more than working as a high school English teacher, and I tell them truthfully that there are things I like a lot better, like a flexible work schedule... |
Veterans Day and War Literature
| As Veterans Day approached, I found myself thinking about the many books we read in my American Literature course that deal with war and its consequences. Though Huck Finn does not deal directly w... |
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