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It’s a rare opportunity when I get to both introduce a wonderful new blog and announce that OUP authors will be guest blogging there all week. Moreover: Life and Art is The Economist’s new culture blog headed up by Emily Bobrow. Everyday this week Michael and Diane Ravitch, authors of The English Reader: What Every […]
A few questions about The English Reader, an interview with Michael and Diane Ravitch.
By Edward Zelinsky
Ten years ago, the financial problems of public employee pensions concerned only specialists in the field. Today, the underfunding of public retirement plans is widely understood to be a major problem of the American polity. Underfinanced public pensions threaten the ability of the states and their localities to provide basic public services while paying the retirement benefits promised to state employees.
Is the Internet good for literature? On first glance, it seems so. Between internet forums, blogs, messages and emails, nearly everyone is writing, and reading, certainly more than we did just a few years ago, when the ubiquity of television and the telephone seemed to be making literacy obsolete.
Michael Ravitch looks at The Declaration of Independences.
Diane Ravitch looks at education.
The second post in a series by Diane and Michael Ravitch.
An A-Z list of books to read.
Part Four of the English Reader quiz.
Part three of the English Reader Quiz.
A literature quiz from the authors of The English Reader.