Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History
tokyokevinI started listening to this podcast a couple of weeks ago. I can't get enough. I remember driving all over Japan a few years ago, listening to the series about…
Burma Bound
A friend of the family has wrangled me into volunteering as a teacher trainer for a week next January in Myanmar. The group is small, and works through a travel…
Audio Books and Driving
Jim Dean, my dad's colleague and long-since-retired English teacher at Larkin high school near Chicago has a wonderful laugh and a razor sharp wit. His appreciation of English is also…
Shooting children in the US now commonplace
Another shooting. James Fallows (Atlantic) outlined why nothing would change after the Colorado movie theater massacre. He was sadly right. One reason I am happy to live in Japan. We…
Homework. Does it do any good?
I don't think so. If you consider what is traditionally considered homework (exercises to drill into memory some point taught in class), there is controversy. Andrew Sullivan over at the…