On Jan 26, 2011, at 10:02 AM, Alan Rudy wrote:
> Yup, its the teachers'/professors' fault for not mandating greater rigor
> (and I know that's not what you meant to imply, Doug
Now of course I don't mean that, but there really is something terrible going on, with, you know, kids today not reading. You may have noticed that thread on the Progressive Sociologists list the other week, looking for suggested excerpts from The Communist Manifesto to assign, because the full text is too long. It's about 40 pages, for god's sake. This is very bad. We can talk for a long time about what's produced this situation, but it's still very bad.
Doug