“Dedicated teacher Leonora Rustamova wrote a book to engage five teenage rebels in her class. But after it went up on a website she was dismissed,” according to a report… Read more »

“Why don’t we have a museum that honors the great writing and the great writers in America?” That’s the question posed by Malcolm O’Hagan, a retired president and chief executive… Read more »

Bookslut points us to the blog of the European Journal of International Law, where New York University law professor Professor Joseph Weiler writes a column detailing what it’s like to… 4 / Read more »

According to Richard Arum and Josipa Roska’s latest book, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses, college kids are doing remarkably well these days at — as their title suggests… Read more »

In Louisiana it has been observed that students are only now starting to slowly come around to the idea of  e-textbooks. Doesn’t seem like it should be so. But the… 2 / Read more »

The San Francisco Chronicle points us to The Once and Future School’s contribution to the current debate about racism in Mark Twain’s Huck Finn. Posted on Youtube (below) the documentary… Read more »

Ever the bomb thrower, on Saturday the Huffington Post published the latest long and thoughtful grenade lobbed by Anis Shivani (also published in the fall edition of Boulevard), this one comparing modern… 2 / Read more »

No less than 1,000 ancient Greek texts will be made available online by the British Library, with another 250 coming by 2012. Ranging from seminal editions of Aesop’s fables to… Read more »

Most publishers advise their authors to suffer negative reviews in silence. But Melville House author Paul Berman says “I glance with pleasure at some harsh reviews” of his book, The… Read more »

There are myriad celebrations honoring the 200th year anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. Yet, one hundred and fifty years after publishing his On the Origin of Species Darwin’s still making… Read more »