January 7, 2009

Back to High School

By JAMES M. LANG

An assistant professor of English finds radical new sources of inspiration for his discipline in K-12 classrooms

For a few days every spring semester I find myself displaced from my comfortable academic territory into an environment that I tend to find confusing, chaotic, and a little scary: a high-school English classroom.

This annual displacement occurs because my college does not offer education as a stand-alone major; instead, students here concentrate in education while

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