by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | The Study, Twain for Teachers
Originally posted by: Ben Click on November 17th, 2020 When I started this column in May 2020, I focused solely on the COVID-10 pandemic (over 120,000 US deaths and 450,000 worldwide at that time), the need for institutions of integrity such as the World Health...
by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | Twain for Teachers
Originally posted by: Jocelyn Chadwick & Matt Seybold on September 7th, 2021 Mark Twain identified as a poet, a bad poet. “When the great poet laureate, Lord Tennyson, died,” Twain wrote, “I found that his position was open and I tried to get it…but I did not get...
by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | Twain for Teachers
Originally posted by: Jocelyn Chadwick on March 7th, 2018 EDITOR’S NOTE: The Duluth Public School District in Minnesota recently decided to drop two novels from their curriculum, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill A Mockingbird. Jocelyn Chadwick,...
by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | Twain for Teachers
Originally posted by: Jocelyn Chadwick & John Grassieon on March 14th, 2018 EDITOR’S NOTE: Last week, Jocelyn Chadwick responded to the recent removal of “sensitive texts,” including Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, from the curriculum in Duluth Public Schools by...
by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | Twain for Teachers
Originally posted by: Jocelyn Chadwick on April 12th, 2022 EDITORS NOTE: Dr. Chadwick has, since 2019, been co-director of our Summer Teachers Institute. While the STI was canceled in 2021 due to the ongoing pandemic, Drs. Chadwick and Seybold have continued to...