I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social
"We are persuaded that the greatest single failure which appears from the evidence of our study is a failure to communicate to students the full meaning and purpose of a liberal education...It is nothing short of wicked to let our better students go to sleep." Gen Ed in School and College, 1953
I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social
scarlet letter reading quiz: give students a sparknotes passage and ask what it misses—a significant detail, some tension, a connection to another text only a member of our class might see
meanwhile, the CLT is quite serious about realizing their vision, and they're not wrong to emphasize books and to think about shared purpose across institutions
the College Board might not seem like an urgent threat to professors who more or less agree with what they see in AP frameworks, but the system is designed to deplete gen ed enrollment while turning both high school and “college” illiberal
