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Interview with Robert T. Tally Jr. on historicizing 'The Hobbit'

Confessions of a Community College Dean

That said, this student of Tolkien had at least one salient critical premise: more can be going on in a work of literary fantasy than just make-believe. avoids reductive shortcuts while also presenting Tolkien’s first work of fiction as deeply historical.

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Is Poetry Dying?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma A freshman dormmate won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry nearly a decade ago. The share of adults who said that they had read a poem (not plural) not for school or work, 12 percent in 2017, was nearly a third less than in 1992. His book sold, according to the last count that I saw, 353 copies.

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10 Reasons to Make Your Summer School Class Project-Based

Experiential Learning Depot

Let's look at an example: A student might choose predator/prey relationships as the focus of their PBL experience (life science). In life, learning doesn't happen in discrete units. Project-based learning, especially when self-directed, naturally presents opportunities to gain these 21st-century competencies and more.