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Matt in Today's JWR

July 07, 2004

I've got an opinion piece in today's Jewish World Review titled, "Educational Landscape by Dali." It begins:

Here's a phantasmagoric tale. One of the global advertising industry's leading lights is teaching an advertising workshop at major university's school of journalism and communications. The theme is "creatively facing fear" by doing something transgressive, and capturing it on video.

After getting students to talk about their greatest fears, the guest instructor and three ad agency colleagues hand out the assignments. These include instructing students to, variously, run naked through a golf course; try to torpedo a wedding when the officiator asks if anyone objects; convince your parents you're gay; play Twister with a trucker; and interview for a job as a stripper.

Now, an even taller tale. What you just read isn't fiction, but reality...

Read the whole thing.

Posted by Matt Rosenberg at July 7, 2004 08:26 AM

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Comments:

"We will yet make public schools safe for Ebonics."
Will yet ??? You mean ~ they're not safe for it now?

Posted by: Lorna at July 7, 2004 01:13 PM

Not quite yet.

Posted by: Matt R. at July 7, 2004 01:16 PM

Lorna,

What do you mean? "We will yet make public schools safe for Ebonics."

Amilton

Posted by: Argus Milton at July 12, 2004 04:23 PM

Actually, Argus, those words were part of the JWR article I cited in this entry. It was a satirical reference to "spelling reformers" (whom I also discuss in the JWR article) who don't believe in upholding proper spelling because it's too confusing to them. Lorna was saying, in effect, that schools have already surrendered on standards regarding correct language and spelling.

If you have a different viewpoint, feel free to lay it out.

Posted by: Matt R. at July 12, 2004 06:07 PM
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