National Autism Awareness Month: Stress and Coping
Autism confounds researchers but one way of understanding it is to look through the lense of stress and coping.
National Autism Awareness Month: Helping Children With Autism Learn
Helping Children With Autism Learn: Treatment Approaches for Parents and Professionals, by Bryna Siegel, is a practical guide to treating the learning differences associated with Autism. Siegel, the Director of the Autism Clinic at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, gives practical guidance for fashioning a unique program for each child’s problem, effectively empowering families. In the excerpt below Siegel explains how to help verbal children use their words.
Books and Buddies
It was a typical law school classroom, long desks, stadium style seating, a whiteboard and a podium in the front, but this was far from a typical class. In fact, it was not a class at all. It was Books and Buddies, a program at the University of Miami School of Law that pairs law […]
Oxford World’s Classics Book Club Reminder: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Don’t forget, we are talking about Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland the last week in April!
National Poetry Month: Fevers of Artistic Dreams
Welcome to National Poetry Month! This month we have invited the Buffalo Poets (bio at bottom) to help us celebrate. Every Friday for the rest of the month they will share their essays, poetry and whatever else strikes them. This is their space for a month and we hope that they can infuse all of us with some of their enthusiasm. Without further ado…
Allen Ginsberg: A Decade Gone Today
A link on the anniversary of Allen Ginsberg’s death.
I Have Free Rein!
Everyday I receive an email from Oxford containing a grammar tip. The last one I shared was about flaunt v. flout. Today’s tip is about having free rein, (not reign) a mistake I make all the time.
Oxford World’s Classics Book Club: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
“Begin at the beginning,”, the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop” Today we are launching the Oxford World’s Classics Book Club. The first week of every month we will pick a book and give you a month to read it.
Coping With Depression at School
Earlier today we posted an article by Cait Irwin about art and expression. In Irwin’s book, (co-written by Dwight Evans, M.D. and Linda Wasmer Andrews), Monochrome Days, she shares her experiences as a young women suffering from depression and her road to recovery. The book also explains what is currently known about depression in adolescents, […]
How to Write Arguments
How to write arguments.
Women’s History Month: An Interpretation of Feminism in Africa
For Women’s History Month we turn to the AASC to englighten us about Women in Africa.
Justice Matters: A Response
A response to Justice Matters.
Niko Pfund and Oxford Scholarship Online
An interview with Niko Pfund.
Hiding From the Truth
Philip Kitcher explores the deceiving nature of truth.
Competition or Criticism
How To Best Motivate America’s Schools?
Graham questions the best techniques for reforming America’s schools.
Extreme Home Makeover and Oxford University Press
OUP on Extreme Home Makeover.