Assignment
How do best practices and life collide? How can we engage students as learners and also understand their unique challenges and responsibilities in an increasingly diverse college community?
Have you ever felt excluded from conversation because the turning phrases and vocabulary seemed to rule you out of that discourse? Is the topic about education and its various insider dialogues important to compassion, truth, community? Does higher education have ways that prevent people from access through unspoken but important boundaries that affect say the lower class kid from trying education?
Articles:
1. 'Academically Adrift' By Scott Jaschik.
2. How We Are Ruining America by David Brooks.