
“The distinction between complex thinking / right-answer thinking increasingly defines the difference between elite educational opportunity and education of the rest.”"If the SAT Were a Key to All Mythology" by Monica Cohen

“Discoveries: Christopher Merrill”
December 10th, 2011


“A Wilderness of Contradictions”
June 22nd, 2011

“Reburning L.A. – The Literature of 1992”
April 29th, 2012
“The Anatomy of a Cheater: Junot Diaz's "This Is How You Lose Her"”
September 11th, 2012
“Discoveries: Mary Clearman Blew”
October 22nd, 2011


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