Essay

Report Digs Into Teachers' Feedback And Finds Bias Towards Minority Students

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 05.15.2012

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Youth Radio -- Youth Media International

By: Robyn Gee When white teachers were asked to give feedback on C-minus level essays, they gave more positive feedback when they believed the studen...

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My Formula for Travel: Get Out, Go Slow

Joshua Berman | Posted 04.23.2012

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Joshua Berman

I stop and look up. The path looks like it flattens out on top and then disappears in a knot of wind-stunted trees. I walk toward them.

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'Tis the Season, for Student Plagiarizing

Anastasia Rubis | Posted 02.22.2012

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Anastasia Rubis

If students want to circumvent their addiction, and avoid academic trouble, they can do what I've done in previous paragraphs. Use those funny little things called quotation marks and give credit where credit is due.

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Teacher Faces Sex Charges After Student Writes Essay About Their Affair In College Paper

AP | By MEG KINNARD | Posted 06.28.2011

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-- A former high school band teacher in North Carolina was arrested on sex charges after a young woman wrote in an essay in her college newspaper tha...

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Hipster Pho

One For The Table | Posted 05.25.2011

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One For The Table

At Hipster Pho, I got the number 5, which was basically a tempura taco springroll with shrimp and steak, aka deliciously perfect, and the number 16, which was essentially the same thing over noodles instead of inside a tempura crepe

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Washington Post Looking for "America's Next Great Pundit" -- Could It Be You?

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

Newspapers seem to be clinging to blandness as a viable business model in an exciting new world of opinions available to their potential customers -- to their detriment. And then they wonder why they're failing.

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Lost in Syndication: The Case of the Hatoyama Essay

Nathan Gardels | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nathan Gardels

An essay published by Yukio Hatoyama, the soon-to-be prime minister of Japan, has caused a big stir abroad, which in turn caused a bigger stir back in Japan.

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Getting Over My Fear Of Pink

Jeana Lee Tahnk | Posted 11.17.2011

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Jeana Lee Tahnk

When it came to the birth of my own daughter, the overabundance of all things pink made me realize that I had to face my aversion head on, otherwise, she would have nothing to wear.

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