China: Thoughts and Debates on the Name-calling Professor

The start was in fact very simple. In 2007, Professor Zhong Hua at Sichuan Normal University issued an article entitled Cultural Studies and the Lost of Literary Theory in the 11th issue of “Literature and Art Studies”, one of the core academic journals in China, criticizing an academic work entitled Perspective of Ideological Transformation and […] (more…)

Japan: the First English Teacher

Peter Payne from Japundit traces the history of the first English Teacher in Japan.
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In Our Mailboxes Yesterday Morning

The Unknown Administrator put a sheet of paper in each teacher’s mailbox Monday morning that had only the following statement: “Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing- the result.”That was it. Nothing more.

As always, we who work in the classroom remain puzzled…. (more…)

John Murtha: Porker Of The Year!

Not so long ago, Nancy “San Fran Nan” Pelosi promised that Democrats would “drain the swamp,” of Washington’s pork-barrel spending.

And now Democrat congressman John Murtha (yes, that John Murtha) of Pennsylvania has now been crowned the King of Pork by Citizens Against Government Waste: Washington, D.C. - Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today announced the final results of its online (more…)