Mike Rose's Blog

Several years back, Atlantic Monthly published an essay by an anonymous “Professor X” (“In the Basement of the Ivory Tower”) lamenting...

Sparked by the article in the June Atlantic Monthly , “In the Basement of the Ivory Tower,” my last three entries on this blog have dealt wi...

The discussion of underprepared college students over the last few posts leads me to one more entry. This is on teaching remedial writing. I...

There was a lot of thought-provoking response to my last entry (“On Portraying the ‘Non-Traditional’ College Student”), and so I would like ...

Since I began this blog a few months back, we have been discussing the purpose of schooling, particularly, but not solely, public education,...