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While developmental educators talk with each other in streams of consciousness about "students today," and try desparately to remain relevant to Kentucky legislators, there often shows up an intriguing narrative that is outside the usual crowd of Kentucky educators.  Take a look at this interesting article from a literature prof in New Jersey.

 

To whet your appetite, I snag a few words from her essay:  "At New Jersey City University (NJCU), in Jersey City, New Jersey,incoming freshmen (a little over 500 full-time admitted in Fall 2008) who need remedial courses is a phenomenon that faculty are all too familiar with. Many are children of immigrants. Most have parents who never graduated from college. All aspire to be middle class. They know that a high school diploma is no longer the ticket to social mobility in the U.S.; the manufacturing economy that once easily absorbed such students and allowed them to support a family has all but disappeared in the past decades. The question is: What does this have to do with teaching literature and human nature in the freshmen writing courses? The answer is: Everything."  Read it - let me know what you think... and I'll pass it along to the crowd in Frankfort. 

 

 http://www.rupkatha.com/0109teachingliteratureintheageofeliteracy.pdf